Word: rams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commend themselves to the spirit." On a budget now running $315,000 a year, Operation Serenity restores old churches, houses and forts, rediscovers folklore and old music: Puerto Rico bursts with pride at being the home of such artists as Cellist Casals and the late Nobel Prizewinning Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. But Serenity has not eased the pull on Bootstrap. Muñoz finally came around to the belief that "we must live like angels and produce like the devil...
...leaped down from the public seats, raced to the truck cab to renew the battle. The crowd roared as it recognized Toledo's Mayor Joseé Conde Alonso. Secure in the driver's seat, the mayor circled the arena with the truck, looking for a chance to ram his enemy. The bull made faster turns and hit harder: he gored both fenders, ripped off the license plate and headlights, damaged the wheels and the water tank itself. Once, he nearly tipped the truck over, and the mayor escaped only by turning the water on full blast...
Died. Juan Ramón Jiménez, 76, expatriate Spanish poet who won the 1956 Nobel prize for literature; of pneumonia; in San Juan, Puerto Rico. When the Nobel announcement came from Stockholm, it rattled the ice in U.S. literary tumblers because few readers had ever heard the name. Editorial researchers scrambled, learned that Poet Jiménez was known from Aragon to Argentina as a kind of melancholy, Andalusian A. A. Milne, particularly for Platero y Yo,* a collection of prose vignettes spoken by the poet to his burro about life and death in a Spanish town (TIME...
...suddenly the script was changed, and the security police mysteriously withdrew. In a mood both exuberant and ugly, the young crowd swept forward again, seized an auto and used it as a battering ram to smash down the iron gates that barred their way. They went tumbling into the halls and corridors, raced up the stairs and rampaged through the 500 government offices. Armfuls of official papers fluttered down from smashed windows. A fully armed company of paratroopers stood idly by, joking with the rioters, accepting beer and sandwiches from ecstatic girls. All at once, there was a martial stir...
...Wolfson formally declared the center open, accepted a gold key and quipped: "First time in my life I've ever received a golden dividend on opening day." There were prayers, speeches, readings of messages and singing of psalms. Two Yemenites ended the ceremony with a blast on twisted ram's horn shofars...