Word: campos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mass Grave. The biggest bloodletting took place one morning at Santiago's Campo de Tiro firing range, in sight of the San Juan Hill, where Teddy Roosevelt charged. A bulldozer ripped out a trench 40 ft. long, 10 ft. wide and 10 ft. deep. At nearby Boniato prison, six priests heard last confessions. Before dawn buses rolled out to the range and the condemned men dismounted, their hands tied, their faces drawn. Some pleaded that they had been rebel sympathizers all along; some wept; most stood silent. One broke for the woods, was caught and dragged back. Half...
Despite riots and bloodshed, Chile's President Carlos Ibanez del Campo (who will visit the U.S. next month) has stuck by the unpopular anti-inflationary course charted by the U.S. economic consulting firm of Klein & Saks (TIME, May 7, 1956). This year, as signs of success multiplied, the program took a terrible blow: the price of copper-source of 30% of all government revenues-fell 35%. New pleas to ease the belt-tightening program poured in, but crusty old (80) Austerocrat Ibanez held firm. Said he: "I am a man without a future. But we need to keep this...
Even aging (79) but vigorous President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo was sick,* his throat inflamed from an attack of the flu. Also down: Jorge Torreblanca, the Minister of Health...
SIENA'S PIAZZO DEL CAMPO, like Rome's Forum, was originally a marketplace set between Siena's three fortified hills. Still the center of the most perfectly preserved medieval city in Italy, the piazza lacks the dramatic impact of Bernini's baroque creation, but it has the charm and mellowness of a slow-growing, organic whole, surrounded with buildings of brick weathered sienna brown and warm pastel shades. The square is large enough to hold the town's whole population in its sloping, shell-shaped form, unified with simple, geometric lines radiating out from...
Born. To Angier Biddle Duke, 41, tobacco heir (Lucky Strike) and president of the International Rescue Committee, onetime (1952-53) U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, and Maria Luisa de Arana, 34, granddaughter of Spain's Marquis de Campo Real: their first son, second child; in Southampton, N.Y. Name: Drexel Dario Biddle. Weight...