Word: mariano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mariano Brull, Cuban Minister to Belgium: ". . . The poet is in a wanting without wanting, which, like a disordered stream, runs towards that which attracts it with an illuminated trembling...
...Luzon's jagged Sierra Madre mountains one day last week, a Philippine army patrol scattered a small party of Huk guerrillas. Over the barking rifles a woman's voice cried: "I surrender! I am Celia Mariano, wife of William Pomeroy." Out of the bushes came a frightened, tired woman, long, raven-black hair falling over her bruised face, her bare feet bleeding. When the Philippine army captured her husband, U.S.-born Huk Leader William Pomeroy (TIME, April 21), she had leaped out of a window and fled into the mountains with two Huk women and two male...
Brought up in Manila slums, Celia Mariano took a B.S. degree with honors at the University of the Philippines. In April 1940 she joined a Communist cell in Manila, later took part in the Huk anti-Japanese resistance movement. After she married Pomeroy, an ex-G.I., in 1948, they jointly taught the Huks revolutionary tactics at the Huks' "Stalin Universities...
...spurn a dollar from the government he hoped to overthrow, he enrolled under the G.I. Bill of Rights at the University of the Philippines. In 1948 he married Celia Mariano, a Filipino girl who attracted Pomeroy for special reasons: "I deliberately chose for a wife an active comrade in the movement so that there will be no antagonisms or divided loyalties." Known as "Bob" and "Rene," the Pomeroys became regular instructors at a "Stalin University" attended by Huk guerrillas in the Sierra Madre mountains. In the records of the Philippine police they were listed...
...Mariano Rubino decided that Bellevue would be the safest place in town for his headquarters. Every morning at 10:30, he parked his sleek Cadillac in a nearby lot, walked briskly to the hospital with a little black spitz dog trotting beside him on a leash, and sat down in the waiting room. Nobody noticed him, or his customers. He left every evening...