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Hozack and Horton were teammates for a season on a midget league team in the Southside Athletic Club Conference, one of four Metropolitan conferences. Dea, who lives on the other side of town in a hockey hotbed by the name of Rio Terrace, played against his current linemates while a member of the Knights of Columbus spurs, another midget team...
...advocates by surprise. So it seems unlikely that Ford simply meant to pay off Governor-elect Carlos Romero Barcelo, a statehooder and a closet Republican, for the convention votes Puerto Rican delegates gave him. A day or so after his pronunciamento, Romero's Washington commissioner Baltasar Corrada del Rio held a press conference to say that statehood now would be premature...
...King Vidor, Gilda is the best of the film noir style that emphasized the dark side of the American character in the climate of national disillusionment following World War II. The film features Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth, and an actor whose name I always forget, who plays a Rio casino owner-cum-international tungsten cartel boss. It revolves around two sinister triangles: one, a quasi-homosexual link between the tungsten boss, the boss's sword-cane, and Glenn Ford (the other, between Rita Hayworth, the Tungsten boss (who marries her), and Ford (who has had a bitter affair with...
...side are an estimated 30,000 troops from Morocco and Mauritania, which claimed the land that Spain surrendered sovereignty over last year under strong United Nations pressure. Opposing are the 5,000 guerrillas of the Frente Polisario (for Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro, the two provinces involved). Polisario is fighting to gain independence for a new "Saharan Arab Democratic Republic" and the 100,000 people, mostly Reguibet tribesmen, it would represent...
Clutching suitcases and shopping bags full of cash, hundreds of Mexicans streamed across the Rio Grande last week. Their aim: to deposit in U.S. banks their threatened life savings. In Mexico City, foreign-currency trading halted as snaking lines of customers exhausted banks' supplies of dollars. Across the breadbasket of Sonora and Sinaloa states, armies of militant peasants poised to "invade" some of the country's richest farm lands. Near by, dispossessed landowners angrily draped their tractors in black crape. For a time, land war in the campo (countryside) seemed only a gunshot away...