Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The deal had a medieval ring. President Victor Paz Estenssoro needed more money to shore up his country's nationalized tin mines; the tin baron wanted a divorce. What more logical situation?
Last week Antenor Patiño, 65, head of what was once the richest of Bolivia's tin baronies, agreed in principle to a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bolivian government tin corporation. In return, Paz promised to let through a law that would permit Patiñ...
The marrying Mr. Patiño was getting a bargain. Shedding the first Mrs. Patiño has been his prime-and somewhat, hazardous-objective for years. In 1942 the princess walked out and filed divorce proceedings for adultery in New York State. At the time, Patiño did...
In 1958, smitten with the well-bred Spanish beauty of Beatriz María Julia, Patiño capped a long campaign to be legally free by obtaining a Mexican divorce. At that, Princess Maria Cristina decided no settlement, no divorce, and sued for a sizable chunk of the Pati...
The obvious way out was to change the Bolivian divorce law. In prerevolutionary 1949, the tin baron proceeded to do just that. After the Senate gave Patiño what he wanted and it went to the Lower House, an embarrassingly plaintive and highly publicized cable arrived from the princess...