Word: ortiz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilgrims had come from all over the world. Aloof, tight-lipped Bishop Giuseppe López Ortiz of Tuy in western Spain headed a delegation of 35 from the saint's own country. There were Germans, French, Italians, Filipinos, Irish, Canadians and one priest from India. In the U.S. delegation was energetic, ruddy Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonnell, Auxiliary Bishop of New York. The Japanese turned out in crowds that jammed streets, parks and station platforms. Non-Christians sang hymns along with their shinja (believer) brothers. Pious deputations waited at railway stations until late at night to catch...
...elected their own queens, and crowned them at special fiestas. The press photographers got Cantinflas, Mexico's most popular comedian, to crown their queen (see cut). Moy ran as the army's candidate for queen of all the festivals. Her nearest competitor was sultry, dark-haired Yolanda Ortiz, candidate of the traffic cops (the police department had its own candidate). Almost everyone in Mexico City knew that they were running a close race, but that Moy was ahead...
Working full-time as a cultural executive, Composer Chávez at 49 has had little time to turn out any more music like his fine, cactus-flavored Indian Symphony or his Antigone Symphony. So now, every fourth week, he skips town with his wife, Pianist Otilia Ortiz, to one of the several places about the country where they have pianos cached, to work undisturbed. By fall he wants to finish a violin concerto, get on with his third symphony. Growls Chávez: "Leisure. I need leisure, as a banker needs leisure to run his business...
...advertised for new faculty members, got hundreds of letters, signed on 13 Harvard Ph.Ds. When the Board of Regents tried to hand-pick a dean for the new law school, Wernette began investigating him, too. Nominee Victor E. Kleven was the son-in-law of wealthy Sheep Rancher Jose Ortiz y Pino, who controls a lot of Spanish votes. But Wernette found that Kleven had never received several of the university degrees he claimed, had resigned from the California bar in the face of disciplinary action, and had never been admitted to the New Mexico bar. Kleven resigned from...
This week, the half-finished Casa de Mexico got its first tenant, Mexican Consul General Gustavo Ortiz Hernan. Lucchese was sure that by the time construction was finished in the fall, the 87 other offices would be rented, mostly, he hoped, to importers and exporters...