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Word: rez (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among those from Latin America who will talk are: Carlos Dávila, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States; Martín del Corral, director of the Banco de la República; Eduardo Suárez, former Secretary of Finance of Mexico; and Luis Roberto Vidigal, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the state of São Paulo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

Perched on an ornate armchair in his office last week, Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of oil-rich Venezuela, received with protocolary propriety Admiral Jerauld Wright, U.S.N., commander of NATO's Atlantic Fleet. The next day, with solemn ceremony, President Pérez Jiménez opened the 1955 session of his obedient Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Work & Play | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...care to such affairs of state that Pérez Jiménez drew his countrymen's attention. Amid Cabinet meetings and the signing of decrees, they noted, the President worked in an astonishing schedule of extracurricular activities. He went to a garden party, an auto race and a pre-Mardi Gras fiesta, where he awarded the queen's prize. He tried out -a new rowboat and pitched the first ball of the Caribbean baseball tourney. He went to the touring Folies Bergère of Paris, whose nude cuties have been a scandalous success in Caracas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Work & Play | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...nominate Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela ... By judicial management of the rich natural resources of the country, he has not only increased home prosperity but also filled the pockets of many people outside Venezuela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 27, 1954 | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

After her sensational Ciudad Juárez debut in 1952, Pat joined the bullfighters' union as a matador de novillos (apprentice fighter of bulls five years old or less), and became the union's first woman member since the memorable Peruvian Conchita Cintron, who quit the bull ring for matrimony in 1950. In the next two years, she killed 80 bulls in Mexico's smaller rings. As soon as her technique matched her courage, said her trainer, she could move on to fight in the big ring of Mexico City. But those goals seem further away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brave Blonde | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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