Word: rdoba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once again, repression served only to inflame. In Córdoba, Argentina's chief manufacturing city, some 10,000 demonstrators swept through a 40-block area of the city, battled police from behind barricades, and burned at least 100 cars...
...jets fired off warning bursts of machine-gun fire overhead. Finally, the army ordered soldiers to shoot anyone appearing on the streets without permission during a dusk-to-dawn curfew. But neither curfew nor martial law nor dire warnings could halt the general strike next day. In Córdoba, riots broke out anew, and police opened fire on a crowd of 2,000 marchers. In the rest of the country, the strike brought all commerce, industry and transportation to a halt. The toll so far: 12 dead, 300 injured; 230 have been arrested. Ongania showed no sign of backing...
...settle for a mere polo pony, but that didn't seem to trouble John-John Kennedy, 5. He had a grand time taking his first all-by-himself ride across the pampas on the Córdoba, Argentina, ranch of Miguel Angel Cárcano, who is an old friend of Grandpa Joe Kennedy's. Jack Kennedy himself had come to Córdoba 25 years before, and now Jackie was saying: "I want my children to learn to love Latin America as their father did. This seemed to me a good beginning." Indeed it was. Flying back...
Electrifying! Breathtaking! Scary! Bravado Bullfighter Manuel Benítez (El Cordobés), was performing again. Had the bulls been good? No, but the hailstorm was terrific, gasped the flamboyant matador as his six-seater Piper Aztec landed at Córdoba airport after passing through gusts at 10,000 ft. "It was awful. I've never been so scared in my life," marveled El Cordobés. A good thing he's been taking flying lessons, Manolo said, because at one point, "a gust hit the plane and the pilot was hurt, and I had to take...
...stock salesmen-the portfolio kind-know that back-country men have money too, much of it stashed away in drawers or secret hiding places. They have learned how to rope and brand it. When a securities salesman stopped his car outside a doctor's office in Córdoba province recently, an old man in rags stuck his head through the car's open window. "How much are the Ledesma shares?" he asked. The surprised salesman quickly quoted a price. "I'll take 7,000," the man replied, and produced a bank statement that proved he could...