Word: sorpresa
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...heat at Buenos Aires sizzled up to 97° last week, and it was hot even at Mar del Plata, Argentina's swank summer resort 250 miles south across the pampas. At nearby La Sorpresa, the great wooded estancia of one of Argentina's first families, Sportsman Simon Pereyra Iraola was entertaining his father-in-law, Senator Antonio Santamarina, leader of Argentina's Democratic party. Rancher Pereyra Iraola had ridden over from his neighboring estancia, San Simon, where he breeds some of the Argentine's finest horses. The next to youngest of the Pereyra Iraolas...
...Sorpresa, the Provincial Chief of Detectives, famed Fernandez Bazan, began to round up suspects. The truck driver, one La Fuente, who had carried Father Pereyra Iraola's baggage from San Simon and had left just before the kidnapping, was dismissed after claiming that two unknown men had asked him for road directions. Two neighborhood vagrants, a Russian and an Italian, were vainly questioned. Then police captured a thick-witted peon named José Gancedo who had disappeared from La Sorpresa the night of the kidnapping, and who aroused further suspicion by failing to explain where...
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