Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friends & Fallout. Once, Paz and Siles were allies, together led the 1952 revolution that toppled the feudal tin-mining aristocracy and installed the National Revolutionary Movement that has ruled Bolivia ever since. Paz was President from 1952 to 1956, then turned over power to Siles for four years before becoming President again in 1960. In the early days, it was more or less a government by committee, no matter who occupied the presidential palace. When Paz decided to run again in last May's election despite a tradition against consecutive terms, he and Siles fell...
Siles accused Paz of personalisimo. At election time, Siles joined Juan Lechín, leftist boss of the tin miners, in a hunger strike, hoping to dramatize his thesis that Paz was becoming a dictator. When that failed, he set out to organize an opposition...
Bombs & Strikes. It was hardly a unified group, comprising disgruntled tin miners, a small group of right-wing Socialist Falange Party members, and anyone else with a grievance against Paz. But the malcontents did make trouble. The capital city of La Paz rocked to frequent bomb explosions, bridges were blown up, and in the eastern jungle area of Santa Cruz, Falange guerrillas took advantage of local unrest to kick up a series of bloody skirmishes with government troops. Last December the tin miners took 17 hostages (including four Americans) in a dispute over government arrests of two union leaders...
...ritual to which he had become accustomed and which he accepted, unwillingly but gracefully. Grouped around the desk in the Baltimore clubhouse were half a dozen reporters for the usual postmortem. They watched Hank Bauer reduce an empty beer can to tin foil with one quick crunch of his hammy fist. "They gotta catch us," Bauer announced. "And if we keep winning, they can't, can they?" Silence. "But Hank," somebody wanted to know, "is the long summer beginning to get to your players...
Gingerbread on Pie Tins. Warrington Colescott, 43, etches on copper plates to which he glues other small, thin copper plates, collage style. When printed, the little plates emboss themselves more deeply into the paper than the ground plate, giving a perspective effect. "My favorite tool is a pair of airplane mechanic's shears," says Colescott, as he places cutouts on plates like gingerbread men on a pie tin, paradoxically creating foreground by millimeters more depth...