Word: vela
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Congressman David Vela, editor of the daily Impartial, leading the way, the opposition heatedly pointed out that even after the 1944 overthrow of Dictator Jorge Ubico no such drastic law was passed because, as Vela put it, "it would give legal weapons of oppression to the government." Vela said that President Carlos Castillo Armas is "a tolerant man, but let us remember that we are legislating not only for now but for the future as well-and the future may bring a capricious or oppressive President...
Cardboard Jungle. Luis Sagi-Vela, the producer, played the fine old Ezio Pinza role of Emile de Becque with rakish zest (in rust-red plantation suit, blue-and-white-striped shirt, solid beige tie). And Mary Martin's sawed-off dungarees were curvaceously filled by Actress Marta Santa-Olalla. Although she sported the short-clipped Martin hairdo, she lacked something of the girl-next-door appeal...