Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them back to us again two months later, they were as good as the wheels we had been importing." Two years ago, when Willys decided to 'produce the all-Brazilian 2600, it still had no designers. To do the job, the company tapped a 28-year-old architect, Roberto Araujo. Says Pearce: "This is his first major effort. I think it's good...
...Pirates remain an exciting team, however. All-Stars Roberto Clemente, Dick Groat, and Bill Mazeroski, and relief pitcher Elroy Face rank high among the individual stars of today...
...enemies are the 5,000 black terrorists, organized and led from Leopoldville in the neighboring Congo by expatriate Angolan Nationalist Leader Holden Roberto, who has kept the revolt against Portugal's harsh colonial rule simmering for 17 months. Convinced by their witch doctors that Portuguese bullets would turn to water, and smeared with white paste that they thought would make them invisible, the rebels last year began an orgy of terror. Armed with machetes and crude rifles made from pipe, old cans and rubber bands, they mutilated their victims because of the native belief that mutilation prevents a body...
Despite such important but belated measures, there still hangs over the country the specter of future violence. Portugal's victory over the rebels was greatly aided by the bitter hostility between Holden Roberto's U.P.A. (Union of the Angolan Peoples) and the Communist-backed M.P.L.A. (Movement for the Liberation of Angola) led by Mario de Andrade, a Sorbonne-educated, Red-lining mulatto. The rival groups often seemed to hate each other worse than they hated the Portuguese; both Roberto and Andrade were the targets of assassination attempts by the other faction. Should the two organizations ever reach...
INSA is the brainchild of its burly, personable president. Engineer Roberto Salas Capriles, 37. Salas, a onetime professor at Venezuela's Central University, became convinced three years ago that import restrictions were inevitable in Venezuela, and set about signing up U.S. manufacturers for his scheme. The majority of INSA's stock is held by Venezuelans, but 30% of the company's initial $2.250,000 capital was put up by the Rockefeller-backed International Basic Economy Corp. To help INSA get started...