Word: vivas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Simonites lined up on their side of the border and the El Guardians on the other. Solemnly, the Governor marched between them to the end of the line, then waved a signal. A band played the national anthem and enemies rushed forward to embrace enemies. "Viva San Simón," shouted the people of El Guarda. "Viva El Guarda," responded the people of San Simón, and they hugged and kissed, and trampled smooth the earth where the furrow had been...
...lusty welcome to 17-year-old Prince Juan Carlos de Bourbon, who arrived from Lisbon after spending a vacation with his exiled father, Pretender Don Juan. The train was ceremoniously brought into the station by the Count of Alcubierre, an amateur engine driver, while dukes and marquesas cried "Viva el Rey." Stern Franco police made no effort to interfere. The demonstration was enthusiastic but possibly a little premature: as Franco now sees it, 13 years must elapse before Prince Juan can become king (TIME...
...Rome's Palazzo Madama, Presiding Senator Enrico Molé solemnly announced to his colleagues: "At this moment Italian troops are entering the incomparably Italian soil of Trieste." At the same magic hour, Rome's students poured from their classrooms and surged joyfully through flag-lined streets, chanting: Viva Trieste Italiana...
...later, Bad Boy Brando, still something of a showoff, has pulled the trick again. But this time his wall is a hundred thousand movie screens, his performance is distinctly more artistic, and his audience is the popeyed world. Six pictures in four years-The Men, A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!, Julius Caesar, The Wild One, On the Waterfront-have branded the Brando name and face blue-hot on the public mind...
...slashing denunciation of Hollywood (his last: in a chapter of his biography A Child of the Century-TIME, June 21). This time Hecht replied to critics who say that he is biting the hands that fed him. Said he: "I got $12,000 from M-G-M for writing Viva Villa, and all the studio made on the picture was $2,000,000 net. I was paid $19,000 by RKO for writing Scarf ace, which made between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000 net for the studio. Sam Goldwyn paid me $50,000 for Wuthering Heights...