Word: capping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three dictators, Perón seems to be accepting his plight most resignedly. Trujillo thought that Peron seemed too much of a showpiece living in his Ciudad Trujillo hotel; the weary Argentine obligingly donned his red baseball cap, gathered his blonde secretary, poodles, a motorcycle and a motor scooter and headed for a country villa. For his exurban retreat, he chose a soft-blue-and-white stucco house seven miles east of the capital, facing out over the Caribbean. As explanation of the move, he said that he was "bothered" by the noisy Cuban exiles who invaded his hotel when...
...bride wore lace and a Juliet cap of pearls; the groom wore a .45 automatic and a ponytail hairdo. Some 2,500 guests thronged the palm-thatched dance-hall restaurant of Santiago's suburban Rancho Club Motel. Thus one afternoon last week Raul Castro, 27, rebel commander in Oriente province, married Vilma Espin, 28, onetime chief of the rebels' Oriente underground in a civil ceremony performed by a Santiago rebel attorney...
...especially when there is an edge of mystery and a gathering of men of wealth, women of beauty, and rapacious figures from the underground to duel over one of the world's great fortunes. The locale should be evocative: cafes on the Champs-Elysees, sun-drenched days at Cap d'Antibes, intrigue and attempted murder on the war-ravaged reaches of the North African coast. For such a true story, involving those standbys of fiction, the goodhearted prostitute and a hired assassin who feels compassion for his victim, and for a developing scandale that gives promise of shaking...
Bulb-Nosed Hero. Some five months after Tycoon Walter's death, opportunity presented itself to a small restaurant owner in Cap d'Antibes. He was Camille Rayon, a tough, bulb-nosed ex-paratrooper. Resistance hero and fanatical Gaullist. Rayon was approached by a general's aide who begged his help in disposing of a salopard (louse) who "compromises the great national work." Who was the salopard? Answer: Paulo Guillaume, now 22, and concluding his military service in Algeria...
...other passengers and crew of the DC-3, Emoto's departure was not quite as spectacular as he intended. In his canvas bag were found two sticks of dynamite. In the plane's toilet were 25 more sticks, a burned fuse and a percussion cap that had failed to explode...