Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unguarded and alone, the President of Mexico strolled out of the hot sunshine of Mexico City's Avenida Madero into the cool interior of the High Life Men's Store. At the counter, Manager Roberto Bloch absently said: "Yes?" Then he took another look at his customer and gasped: "Yes, Mr. President...
Only minor casualties resulted. But Monarchist Roberto Bencivenga, who had been struck on the back of the neck with a club, posted a notice on the Assembly's bulletin board: "I challenge the unknown hero who struck me from behind to meet me face to face...
Between meetings, such world-famed architects as Harvard's functionalist Walter Gropius, Finland's elfin Alvar Aalto, California's machine-minded Richard Neutra, and Brazil's hot-eyed Marcelo Roberto invaded the bar of the mock-colonial Princeton Inn to swap anecdotes about their worst frustrations and snapshots of their favorite jobs. Princeton itself came in for some sly digs. Philadelphia's George Howe, with an eye to the architecturally mixed but mainly neo-Gothic campus, observed that "collegiate Gothic and collegiate Georgian buildings are neither Gothic nor Georgian nor collegiate, but charnel houses...
...most controversial figure in Chile this week is Finance Minister Roberto Wachholtz. Reason: he is out to stop Chile's 300% inflation (on the 1939 price average), even if a third of the country goes broke in the process...
Uruguay and New Zealand (Roberto MacEachen and Sir Carl Berendsen) tried to escape from the room, were testily waved back to their seats by the Chair (Paul-Henri Spaak). The Ukraine (Dmitri Manuilsky) prodded sarcastically: "Who is to decide which are the 'great classics of human thought?' Human thought has taken some very capricious turns at times! Very capricious. ..." (Lebanon's own uncapricious selections: Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Shakespeare, Leibnitz, Pascal, Descartes, Kant, Averroes.*) The matter was referred to the Assembly, to be referred back to a committee...