Word: ramona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, there were the Ramona Para brigades. Ramona Para was a Chilean worker killed during an earlier period of social unrest, and the brigades were groups of Communists, mostly workers, who went around painting murals in the cheapest paint they could buy because that way it cost them less and because they didn't care if the murals faded; the next day the murals would already be a day old and new ones could always be painted anyway. The five other parties in Allende's Popular Unity coalition had brigades of their own to paint murals, but the Communists...
Riggs moved on from marbles to administer many such lessons in tennis, golf, Ping Pong, pool, dominoes, craps, backgammon and gin rummy. Come Sunday, in Ramona, Calif., he will co-star in what may be the first nationally televised tennis hustle. At 55, he will take on Margaret Court, 30. If Bobby has his way, he will simultaneously ring up some new proceeds and put down women's tennis. The match is the result of a challenge he made two years ago to Billie Jean King. "You insist that top women players provide a brand of tennis comparable...
...rundown hotels and is sustained by TV, soup and a weekly copy of Variety brought to him by his solicitous nephew-agent Ben (Lewis J. Stadlen). Clark particularly relishes scanning the obits in the show-biz bible ("Bernie Eisenstein...he was Rodriguez in the dance team of Ramona and Rodriguez...
...lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Austin began his career as an entertainer by pounding bawdyhouse pianos. After a stint in vaudeville, he moved to the recording studios of RCA Victor, where his drawling tenor made hits of tunes like How Come You Do Me Like You Do? and Ramona. His biggest success, My Blue Heaven (1927), became his theme song...
Political Conspiracy. There the matter would have ended, except that the proprietor of Ramona Foods happens to be Mrs. Romana Banuelos, a Mexican-American businesswoman whom Richard Nixon had just nominated to be the 34th Treasurer of the U.S. George K. Rosenberg, director of the Immigration Service's Los Angeles office and the man who called the raid, said he did not know Mrs. Banuelos' identity until after the raid was over. In any case, noted Rosenberg, he had sent a routine letter to Ramona Foods in August 1969, warning the company to stop employing illegal aliens...