Word: bernal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book without surprises or scholarly caches of "new material." But it is presented in an admirable new translation by J. David Townsend, a Methodist clergyman in Cohasset, Mass. Above all, it gives evidence on every page that Author Ségur was a war chronicler ranking with Herodotus and Bernal...
...ANGEL BERNAL CARBAJAL, 57, is the President's closest friend and a "man with no bite." Like Aleman and Ruiz Cortines, Carbajal is a native of Veracruz and now holds the patronage-heavy post of Interior Minister. A onetime professor of history and Supreme Court justice, he is bald, calm and personable...
...BERNAL DÍAZ CHRONICLES (414 pp.)-Translated by Albert Idell-Doubleday...
...books, The Bernal Díaz Chronicles, is the first new English version in 50 years of Díaz' famed history of Cortés' conquest of Mexico. The new translation is so smooth that the story gains as a narrative but lacks something of the awkward dignity with which the proud old soldier must have recalled his years of service under Cortés. The book inevitably evokes Herodotus-another old soldier who lived to remember and tell-as Díaz begins: "I am an old man of 84 and have lost my sight...
...Colombia, in its first sizable deal with the Reds, signed up with some visiting East German drummers to barter $10 million in coffee and tobacco for light machinery. Said Pedro Bernal, manager of the Coffee Exporters' Association: "Now let's see whether we can open markets for coffee in the real Iron Curtain countries...