Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast their ballots for other candidates. Of some 10 million votes, only 17% were blank. Dr. Arturo Illía, whose middle-reading party calls itself the People's Radicals, wound up with 27% of the total, worth 169 electoral votes. Dr. Oscar Alende, leading an anti-Frondizi wing of the ex-President's party, mustered 17% (for 109 electoral votes). Retired Army General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, provisional President after Perón's downfall, got 15% (for 43 electoral votes...
...brothers. Both are bald and portly; in their rabble-rousing university days, they shared each other's clothes, spent time in the same jail, were both packed off to exile by the ruling dictatorships. In the early 1940s Leoni helped Betancourt found A.D. He personally organized its labor wing and was rewarded with the labor ministry (Betancourt was provisional President) in the junta that ruled from 1945 until it was overthrown in 1948. When Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez was toppled in 1958 and Betancourt became President, Leoni took over A.D.'s leadership, strengthening...
...News Reports (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "The White House West Wing" and its inhabitants-Presidential Aides McGeorge Bundy, Theodore Sorensen, Lawrence O'Brien, P. Kenneth O'Donnell and Pierre Salinger...
Then left-wing Demagogue Leonel Brizola, Goulart's noisy brother-in-law decided to make an issue out of the settlement. "Instead of getting money, the gringos should pay indemnity to Brazil for rendering bad service," he thundered. Unexpectedly and inexplicably, Carlos Lacerda, the militantly anti-Communist Governor of Guanabara state, declared that the compact would cost the government $600 million and found a right-wing reason for opposing it. He called the contract an effort "to disguise Brazil's progressive entry into the Soviet orbit." Goulart's resolve melted under all the political heat; he ordered...
...size and complexity. Its three generations stem from three aged sisters-Dolores, Clemencia and Mina. Among the younger men, Armando is a sex-starved punk who works for the local numbers racketeer; Esteban runs guns to a revolutionist named Castro; Robert fiddles on the periphery of the left wing but lacks the will to fish or cut bait. A domineering, money-mad daughter, Elena, is married to a Batista speechwriter who regularly hauls huge bundles of cash from Havana to a Miami bank and is contemptuous of all the pin-poor folk of Ybor City...