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...drug war began bizarrely when 31-year-old Refugio Reyes Pruneda gunned down a Mexican federal police agent and his aide in a Nuevo Laredo restaurant. Simona Pruneda de Reyes, the 72-year-old matriarch of the clan, reacted sharply to the unwanted publicity; with the help of another son, she tied Refugio's arms and legs to stakes driven into the earth of their farmyard, then left him there for two days in temperatures that often rose above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Narcotics War of Nuevo Laredo | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...title story, the honeymooners are really duelists. This is their second day on Anacapri, and poor Giacomo has got nowhere. When he asks for a kiss, he gets a peck on the cheek. Simona keeps promising better things, but it is plain that she is somehow frightened or not really in love or both. To make matters worse, she is a Communist, and Giacomo is not at all interested in politics. When they run across one of Simona's party pals, jealousy is added to discontent. That night, when the marriage is consummated, it is as though two well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Old Devil Sex | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...good ones. It is the story of a middle-aged teacher of the classics who happens to become (through some "blood-brotherhood in dimness") the greatest living authority on an obscure 17th Century Central European poet named Bellorius. On the Bellorius Tercentenary, Scott-King is invited to Simona, a city in Neutralia, for the celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journey to Neutralia | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Basil Zaharoff married 55-year-old Maria del Pilar Antonia Angela Patrocinio Simona de Muguiro y Beruete, Duchess de Villa-franca de los Caballeros. Unable to divorce her insane husband Prince Francisco de Bourbon, Duke de Villafranca de los Caballeros, cousin of Alfonso XIII, for over 30 years she was Sir Basil's mistress, lived with him during her last years in the villa near Paris built by the late Leopold II, King of the Belgians, for his morganatic wife Baroness de Vaughan. Lady Zaharoff died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 20, 1933 | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

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