Word: rocha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When students at Brazil's Rural University went on strike last week against the wretched food served in the university cafeteria, Rural's President Rocha Lagoa called the cops. Armed with Tommy guns and tear gas, red-capped Special Police roared up to the campus, but found nothing to do-although the students were cutting classes, they were causing no trouble. Bored, the cops drifted over to the university football field. Students invited them to get up a team. Final score: Students 4, Police...
...governing board met to choose a new chairman. Their first choice: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden. He declined, on the grounds that the U.S. had held the post too often. Chosen instead, to serve till 1947: Colombia's representative to the Pan-American Union, Antonio Rocha, whose country will play host to the Union's next big party, the Bogota conference, scheduled for early next year...
...finespun theory making the rounds of Buenos Aires last week was that the Monet-snatcher had no intention of trying to dispose of the picture-he was just settling an old score with the National Museum's Director Augusto da Rocha. A tightfisted administrator (he slashed the museum's staff) and no patron of the local art mart, politically rightist da Rocha has long been at odds with most Argentine artists, who are largely left-of-liberal. The expertly executed theft might prove embarrassing enough to cost...
...embalmed by one Dr. Walther Haber-feld, who removed the heart. When political order was restored, the aviator was buried in Rio. Dr. Haberfeld offered the heart to the flyer's family, but they would have none of it. The story was told to Dr. Paulo da-Rocha Gomide, advertising manager of Panair do Brasil (Pan American Airways' Brazilian subsidiary). Quick to see the chance for a graceful bow to the memory of Brazil's most famed airman, he persuaded the Government to accept it for its Aeronautic Museum. The designer of the container was bearded...
This year Public Welfare Minister Dr. Gustavo Baz and his wife, acting as godparents, witnessed the marriage of Octogenarian Simón Rocha and his sweetheart of these several decades-enough decades, in fact, to see the birth of 18 children. One of Simón Rocha's grandsons was married at the same time...