Word: montenegro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Paco thus provided a glimpse of Red penetration, Cesar Montenegro Paniagua, one of the four Communist deputies, showed Red power. When the workers of the U.S.-owned International Railways of Central America met to consider a strike vote, their own union president took a back seat and Paniagua took charge. Under his deft prodding, the union enthusiastically voted to strike. At 9 o'clock one night last week, engineers tooted the whistles of the 14 locomotives in the Guatemala City yards, and the strike...
...bust in plaster of the famed Croatian scholar, Vatroslav Jagic (1838-1923); he has just shipped off a 6-ft. bronze of St. Anthony for Oxford University; and he is working on a full-scale model of a statue as a gift for the people of his homeland, honoring Montenegro's 19th century poet and prince-bishop, Petar Njegos. Mestrovic's plans call for a pensive figure in grey granite above Njegos' mountaintop grave; there will be a chapel, too, and Mestrovic has already sent over the designs for approval...
...school to learn Spanish.; Part of the bilingual staff is made up of writers and journalists from Latin American countries, including Alberto Cellario and Leonor Villanueva, ex-editors on the staff of La Prensa, the once great Argentine daily taken over by Peron. Other Latin American staffers: Walter Montenegro, one of Bolivia's leading newspaper columnists: Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo, winner of Cuba's 1951 National Literary Prize; Maruxa Nunez de Villa-vicencio, former fashion editor of Havana's daily. El Mundo; Ramon Frausto, who wrote a column syndicated in more than 40 Mexican papers...
Died. Elena, 79, ex-Queen of Italy, Consort of the late King Victor Emmanuel III; in Montpellier, France. A towering (6 ft.), black-haired princess of the Black Mountain (her father was Nicholas, Chieftain of Balkan Montenegro), Elena was courted by tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Victor Emmanuel (then Prince of Naples) at the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg. When the shy, awed prince fell in love with her, she was a daredevil horsewoman, had rustic manners and a deep, resonant voice. Married in 1896, they ascended the throne in 1900, where they remained until exiled...
While trade and industrial output have increased on the whole, construction has slowed down. A recently built model city, Titograd, in Montenegro stands half-finished and deserted. The ugly, square, cement hotel, a huge department store, administration buildings are surrounded by open spaces and ruins of the old town. Another mark of prestige, the excellent cement highway between Belgrade and Zagreb conveys more hay-wagons than cars...