Word: tejada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raquel Tejada Welch bears no resemblance to frail, delicate Fay Wray from any angle. Her attack on the male world is based on calculated carnality, on the woman as animal. The parallels between her and Vidal's carnivorous heroine are remarkable. Says Raquel, "I understand Myra thoroughly. I've always identified with her." Now she is bringing her sense of identification to the screen in the title role of 20th Century-Fox's forthcoming film version of Myra. Not since Cleopatra has a movie provoked so much gossip, speculation, expectation?and guerrilla war?even before going into production...
Little Raquel Tejada (the last name means, in Spanish, "Spears of Clay") was born in Chicago on Sept. 5, 1940 (not, as she claims, 1942). Her father, Armand, is a Bolivian-born structural-stress engineer; her mother, Josephine, is of English stock. When Raquel was two, the Tejadas moved to La Jolla, Calif., a pretty, plasticized, middle-class community just north of San Diego. Raquel grew up in an all-American ambience that would have been a natural for a California Norman Rockwell. The family, which included Raquel's younger brother and sister, lived in a one-story stucco house...
Careers have been built on a lot less, but then Raquel started with a lot less. Daughter of a Bolivian engineer named Armand Tejada, Raquel moved to La Jolla, Calif., in 1944, when she was two. The proximity to Hollywood was not wasted on the skinny, ambitious child. At 15, she had a lead role in the local Mexican festival. After a little TV and some modeling, she decided, at 21, to make it in the movies...
Last week some 4.000 employees of the General Prison Corps gathered in Madrid to toast Jose Maria Herreros de Tejada. retiring after long service as director of Spanish jails. Defending his stewardship against "foreign" critics, Director Herreros proudly announced that in Spain today, "prisoners charged with crimes against the security of the state-otherwise known as political prisoners-who are sentenced, tried and detained, number only 683." About 90% of these prisoners "are held for Communist-type activities," he added, "and the other 10% are fellow travelers." Except for The Netherlands, boasted Herreros, Spain has the lowest per capita number...