Word: rez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dreaming of empire, France's Napoleon III sent mild-mannered, well-intentioned Austrian Archduke Maximilian to rule Mexico while the U.S. was busy fighting its Civil War. But Napoleon had to abandon "Emperor" Maximilian to the advancing forces of Mexican Patriot Benito Juárez, and the pathetic Austrian went gallantly before a firing squad in Mexican shirt and cowboy trousers, dividing his few remaining gold coins among his executioners...
Strongman Porfirio Diáz took over after Juárez in 1876, ruled with an iron hand, justifying his protective dictatorship by sighing, "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the U.S." He was overthrown by the 1910 Revolution, which became the almost mystical source of reform-land, church, social, economic-and is still the major influence in Mexico's national life today. It was led by Francisco Madero, a 5-ft. 2-in. vegetarian, teetotaler and spiritualist with brown beard, piping voice and a nervous tic. Madero was supported by the backwoods guerrillas Francisco...
Divorced. By Lily Pons, 54, petite (5 ft. ½ in.), French-born coloratura soprano best known a half-generation ago: Andre Kostelanetz, 56, Leningrad-born orchestra conductor and arranger of tried and true sounds; after 20 years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...
...welcoming the Communists, the handsome naval officer, hero of the revolt that toppled Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, has entered into a formal alliance no Latin politico has tried since the days of Guatemala's hapless Jacobo Arbenz. In taking Red help, Larrazábal insisted that he is not one of them. "I am not a Communist," he wrote in his acceptance letter. "On the contrary, I am a Catholic of unbreakable faith and a liberal democrat. My acceptance of Communist support does not signify any commitment, present or future." But by running...
...with Del Webb) of the New York Yankees, millionaire grandson of Metal Magnate Daniel Gray Reid (American Can Co.), onetime husband of Cinemactress Arline Judge,* Skater Sonja Henie and others; and Alice Lowthers Topping, 30, onetime Manhattan model; after six years of marriage, two children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...