Word: rodriguezes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
JOSE Luis RODRIGUEZ VILLACANAS Las Palmas, Canary Islands...
...Puerto Ricans, Jesse Rodriguez and Simon Suarez, went to jail, charged with aggravated battery. Last week they were set free because Judge George N. Leighton ruled that they had acted in "self-defense...
...contender in production-class races last year. Shelby spent 1,000 hours preparing for the race, figuring gear and axle ratios, tuning engines, using computers to help adjust the suspension to the track conditions at Florida's Daytona International Speedway. In the time trials, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez won the pole position by clocking 113.7 m.p.h. in his V12 Ferrari prototype, and Shelby decided he needed a little strategy too. His plan: turn California's Dan Gurney loose in a Lotus-Ford sprint car as a "rabbit" to lure the Ferraris into a car-killing speed duel...
...17th lap, one of the three team Ferraris was already out of action. On the 64th lap, Rodriguez' V12 Ferrari prototype was hitting 150 m.p.h. when the tread peeled off a rear tire and flailed the underside of the car, smashing the battery and exhaust pipes. Ferrari mechanics slapped on a new wheel, and turned the car over to Britain's Grand Prix Champion John Surtees. But the rear axle snapped on the 116th...
Almost simultaneously, Castro announced that he himself was taking over INRA, and that Rodriguez was "relieved of his duties." Rodriguez would remain in the Cabinet "in charge of directing the study of numerous problems of national economy." The Soviets could not miss the point. For his chief INRA assistant, Fidel passed over Rodriguez' first vice minister and named instead a Fidelista, whose previous experience was as CO of Cuba's air force...