Word: soledad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University's researches in botanical development's in the tropics were spurred last week when the University announced the appointment of Dr. Arthur G. Kevorkian, expert on Latin American plants, as the director of the Atkins Garden and Research Laboratory at Soledad, Cuba. Dr. Kevorkian will teach at Harvard in alternate years and will return to the University at intervals for reports, study and lectures...
Charmer. Alemán knows how to win men and charm women. To President Avila Camacho's wholesome, good-hearted wife, Soledad, who shows him a motherly fondness, Alemán owes many a political debt. Señora de Avila Camacho once defined the official line toward Alemán by stating at dinner: "There will be no criticism of Miguelito in this house...
...proudest village in Mexico last week was tiny Soledad Etla (pop. 1,200) in Oaxaca State. President Manuel Avila Camacho had just given it a handsome new flag. In one year every one of Soledad Etla's 470 illiterates had learned to read & write...
...Soledad Etla was Mexico's first 100% literate village, but others were on the way. In Tecuexcomac, 300 villagers get up at 4 every morning to attend reading & writing classes. In El Palmito, like many of his classmates, nine-year-old Schoolboy José Rojas hurries off each day after school to teach the two Rs to a 54-year-old day laborer...
...week's end a female compatriot of Pedro's tried a less ambitious but nonetheless staggering swim-the 42 windy miles down the Paraná from Campana to San Fernando, at the head of the Estuary. She was Mrs. Soledad Bueno de Gutierrez, 38, swimming teacher in a Buenos Aires department store. She made it-in 17 hours, 38 minutes...