Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico's congressional election day last week, one enterprising politician hung official-looking posters outside his house, set up a booth inside, got two unsuspecting policemen to stand guard while neighbors lined up to vote. By the time his game was discovered that afternoon, the phony booth contained stacks of ballots that had to be discarded...
Last week, when court officials entered his cell to take a deposition, General Castaneda spoke up: "I respectfully request my immediate release. My eyes are sick. I fear I am going blind." The court appointed two doctors to examine him. Their report: a boyhood injury has all but robbed him of sight in his right eye, and a mucous membrane is rapidly covering the left. They recommended immediate surgery. At week's end, the court had yet to approve the recommendation...
Somber-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin arrived in Manhattan last week on his first visit to the U.S. mainland since his inauguration as Puerto Rico's first elected governor. With his handsome wife and two dark-eyed daughters, he went to the Hotel Plaza, where he had no sooner checked in than he headed for the kitchen. "New York kitchens," he explained, "are always full of Puerto Ricans. They make the salads, cut the meat, wash the dishes." The Plaza's kitchen help were appropriately enthusiastic; several elderly women fell on Muñoz' neck...
...Madrid, the grandees conducted a kind of dignified sit-down strike against "foreigners of dubious origin." So far, they had signed the patents of only two claimants. Intoned the committee's secretary, the Marqués de Ortasona: "What the king has given, and has been lost, can only be restored by a king." Added another grandee: "We are in no hurry. Perhaps if we slow down enough, the patents will bear the signature of a king and not of a commoner who happens to be chief of state...
...News, has been solving the problem by importing good movies; last year, it bought from Sir Alexander Korda the rights to 24 British films. Now that the last Korda movies are being televised, WPIX is ready with a new 13-film package-a mixed bag of eleven English and two American hits of a decade...