Word: ventura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting a Spy. Set down at Constanza by Juan de Dios Ventura Simó, a Dominican air-force captain who purportedly defected to Trujillo's Cuba-based opponents in May, the C46 load of rebels fanned out into the hills to begin a hot running fight. Five days later, Ventura Simó, freshly decorated and newly promoted to colonel, sat down in Ciudad Trujillo at a government microphone to read a statement that he had been a spy all along, had delivered the rebels into a trap. After the broadcast he appeared at a Foreign Ministry reception...
...Constanza area to oversee the counterattack, that Rebel Commander (and onetime Castro Captain) Enrique Jiménes Moya was killed. The rebels fought back with reports that Trujillo was nervously hiding out at San Isidro Air Base, that Jiménes Moya was still alive and fighting, that Pilot Ventura Simó had been executed by a San Isidro firing squad when his propaganda value had been used...
Despite U.S. demands for explanation of the C-47 force-down and U.S. charges that the Dominican Republic tricked Ambassador Farland into being photographed giving Pilot Ventura Simó an apparently congratulatory handshake, Trujillo last week greeted the crews of three visiting U.S. Coast Guard vessels as though he did not have a care in the world. He swapped toasts with the U.S. officer in charge at a palace reception, passed around a muddy U.S. flag he said one of the invasion boats was flying when it was sunk...
Safety Break. In Ventura, Calif., Rodney Poston won $5 from the Kiwanis Club for "exemplary safe driving," used it to pay a traffic fine...
...madamed a San Francisco "massage parlor." She was, at one time or another, involved in abortion, forgery, check-kiting and theft. She married something between eleven and 20 men, tried to con other men for make-believe pregnancies. But Elizabeth Duncan, 54, was on trial for murder in a Ventura, Calif, courthouse last week because she was a mother-with a vengeance (TIME...