Word: rodolfo
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...Rome last week Rodolfo Graziani, once a field marshal of Italy, stood nervously before a military court. Twitching his thin lower lip and fingering a monocle, the Fascist conqueror of Ethiopia heard a fellow officer declare him guilty of military collaboration with the Germans during World War II. The admiral and four generals who made up the court rejected Graziani's proud plea that he had simply done a soldier's duty. Graziani, they decided, had gone well beyond the call of duty when he joined Mussolini's German-supported rump government after Italy surrendered...
Despite his grumbling, Maestro Rodolfo Gaona, 62, was having a good time. To meet his complaint that the bulls had been puny lately, there was a new rule against bulls weighing less than 990 pounds. And the novillero (novice) he considered the season's most promising-blue-eyed Rafael Rodriguez-was making his debut that Sunday afternoon in the big time...
Among all the 50,000 people in the ring, nervous, 23-year-old Rafael Rodriguez wanted most the approval of Rodolfo Gaona. His nod would add thousands of pesos to the matador's earnings. But approval, if it came, would be only a milder-than-usual insult. Who had a better right to be critical? The old man was the greatest bullfighter Mexico ever produced, and one of the greatest in the world's history...
Rumpled, round-faced Américo Ghioldi, Socialist editor of the lively, clandestine weekly La Vanguardia and brother of Communist Chief Rodolfo Ghioldi, was making a strong bid for a seat as deputy from Buenos Aires. That would give him official immunity and possible relief from the police, who had dogged him ever since the 1943 revolution. It would also assure him a big pulpit for his trenchant criticism...
...Government's economic difficulties, the worst since Perón came to power, encouraged the opposition in its criticism and attacks, and also brought about counterattacks. Tubby, nearsighted, German-born Rodolfo Katz, whose weekly Mimeographed Economic Survey has long predicted economic troubles, was taken for a ride and beaten up by men masquerading as policemen. The nationalist Tribuna, which has centered its fire on pale-faced, pudgy Miguel Miranda, Perón's financial czar and president of the Central Bank, was closed on "technical grounds...