Word: swans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Anna Maria Moneta Caglio, 30, socialite dubbed the "black swan" by the Italian press while she was performing as a controversial, contradictory witness in the Wilma Montesi homicide case, which shook Italian governmental circles from 1954 to 1957; and Mario Ricci, 34, builder, student, playboy; in Florence...
Leaders of the Honduran University Students' Federation rallied for a flag-planting voyage into the Caribbean last week. The Tegucigalpa daily, El Cronista, talked darkly of conflict with "American adventurers." At issue were the Swan Islands-three specks of sand and coconut palm 100 miles off the Honduran coast, which constitute the U.S.'s only currently disputed territorial claim. Cause of the new controversy: the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey last month reminded everyone of the U.S. claims by dispatching Captain E. L. Jones aboard the survey ship Explorer to take a thorough census of the islands...
...century. Every few years (most recently in 1957), Honduras renews its claim with a polite, formal note to Washington. The State Department as politely rejects it, pointing out that the islands were first settled by a Brooklyn guano firm in 1857. In 1904 a Boston syndicate, grandly titled the Swan Islands Commercial and General Trading Co., bought the place to harvest coconuts and tropical woods, but lost money steadily through the years. Amateur explorers pitted the islands in unsuccessful hunts for buried pirate gold...
...where I will be able to breathe in an atmosphere of democratic and Christian liberty." ¶ Rioting kept TV Commentator Luis Conte Aguero, a college classmate and close friend of Castro until he recently grew apprehensive of Red infiltration in Cuba, from going before TV cameras for a swan-song denunciation of Communist influence in the government. ¶Captain Jorge Enrique Sotus Romero, one of Castro's first military commanders during the revolution, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiracy after he criticized Communist infiltration of the army and resigned. ¶ Two armymen, Captain Aquiles Chinea...
...lyric grace and sheer animal power; Nicolai Fadeyechev as the Prince and Vladimir Levashev as the Evil Spirit are virile, commanding performers. On the other hand, the ballet itself is simply an arrant Arcadian anachronism, and Tchaikovsky's music, except for a few eddies of glorious melody, fills Swan Lake with sugar water. But along with all its faults, the picture provides U.S. ballet-goers who missed the Bolshoi troupe during last year's tour with a useful opportunity to see the best company of classical dancers now at the barre...