Word: rogelio
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...delighted at the turn out, despite competition from a World Series and a Nixon-Kennedy TV debate. As usual, language was anything but a barrier to Billy-talking through an interpreter, he suggests, gives a his English-speaking hearers more of a chance to think. With the Rev. Rogelio Archilla of Manhattans Dewitt Reformed Church panting through a skilfull rapid-fire translation on the opposite side of the platform. Evangelist Graham kept the pace fast and the presure high. "You have made a great cultural contribution to New York " he told them, "but now you must help throw back...
...first, the nationalists appeared to accept the contracts. Frondizi in turn went out of his way to be nice to Peronistas, granting them amnesty, restoring confiscated property, allowing them to hold control of the labor movement under a plan drawn up by his Economic and ' Social Affairs Secretary, Rogelio Frigerio. A few rumbles came from within the Radical Party, notably from Frondizi's Vice President. Alejandro Gomez, but they sounded minor...
Amid a torrent of abuse, the police whisked the head man, one "Professor" Arturo Rogelio Ferrari, and his students off to the station. It was quite a haul: two lawyers from Bolivia, a literature professor from Ecuador, a schoolteacher from Caracas, another from Panama, a tailor from Colombia, a seamstress from Peru, a mason frorrwltaly. All were following a six-month course that had started four months before. All lived in strict discipline. Reveille was at 6 a.m. to the strains of the Soviet Air Force march. The "students" studied Latin American politics and economics, the place of women...
...Communism in Guatemala grew strong and tough, it inevitably produced a couple of police chiefs who could have come right out of an Arthur Koestler novel. To Colonels Rogelio Cruz Wer and Jaime Rosenberg fell the duty of directing the final, senseless reign of terror when the anti-Communist revolution last June was toppling their boss, President Jacobo Arbenz. Upon Arbenz' fall, Cruz Wer and Rosenberg escaped in a station wagon to Mexico, first of the regime's big shots to run for safety...
...land reform was good; there was nothing to prove that he saw Red influence over the President as a critical problem. But his first acts in power were to 1) form a three-man junta that included a vocal antiCommunist, 2) outlaw the Communist Party and 3) fire Colonel Rogelio Cruz Wer, head of Guatemala's notorious police and the Reds' only important sympathizer of high military rank...