Word: ramirez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial went on, one boy after another described the sort of thing that goes on inside the adobe walls of Fort Grant. One boy testified that the superintendent had ordered him to hold on to two doorknobs, then lashed him with a fan belt. Another witness accused Guard Rudy Ramirez of going into inmates' rooms at night and whipping them for no apparent reason. "I saw [him] beat and kick another boy," said the witness. "He kicked him with his feet when he was down on the ground...
...third witness took the stand and told how he had been beaten by Ramirez with a blackjack. Two boys who had once run away said that, when caught, they were made to walk barefoot for 8½ hours while guards rode behind them in a truck. Other runaways' heads were shaved and they were put to work, barefooted and bareheaded, in a patch of bullheads (a prickly form of sandbur). At the end of 18 days in the August sun, their heads were blistered, and one boy had blood poisoning from a wound on his foot...
Careless Love. In Bogotá, Colombia, Matilde Ramirez applied for a marriage license and learned that she was already legally married because her ex-fiancé, using their previous license to marry another girl, had not bothered to change the names...
Small World. In Houston, Mike N. Ramirez and Gilberto deHoyes were charged with theft when the man they asked to help them start their car discovered...
...Porfirio Ramirez, inactive in politics himself, was the brother of Caribbean Legion General Miguel Angel Ramirez, onetime Dominican diplomat and leader of two abortive expeditions to invade the Dominican Republic. Last spring, after Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo's knuckles were rapped by the Organization of American States in a report on Caribbean plotting (TIME, March 27), the dictator invited all exiles to come home. Ramirez refused, and the exile committee said that Trujillo took his revenge on Porfirio Ramirez...