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...Bolivia is how it reached the hands of Fidel Castro. Almost immediately after Che had been captured and executed by Bolivia's army last fall, Western journalists swarmed to La Paz to bid for the publishing rights. "If I had the money," said Bolivian Minister of Government Antonio Arguedas at the time, "I would buy the diary myself and resell it at a profit." It seems, however, that money did not stand in Arguedas' way after all. Last week, less than a month after Fidel Castro had gleefully published the diary in Havana, an investigation by the Bolivian...
P.G.A. CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.)* Taped highlights of the second round of play from Pecan Valley Country Club, San Antonio. Live coverage of third round on Saturday, 6-7:30 p.m.; final round Sunday...
From the proud parents at the baptismal font to the sorrowing mourners at a young man's wake, the joys and griefs of a Latin American village are rousingly depicted at San Antonio's HemisFair. The weddings, the cockfights, and the bustle of the marketplace are all there, recorded with droll candor and naive precision. The wonder is that this bewitching pageant, the hit of the fair, is contained in a single building in Las Plazas del Mundo. In fact, "The Magic of a People" is a human comedy on the scale of Tinker Bell. Its 41 tableaux...
Spanish colonists, American Indians and African-descended slaves used effigy and icon as a part of their religious rituals. In San Antonio, Girard displays pre-Inca dolls found inside burial shrouds, Christian saints and angels, Haitian voodoo fertility symbols. Among the tableaux that most colorfully mix the half-Christian, half-pagan customs are those depicting All Souls' Day (Nov. 2), a festival celebrated in Latin America as a cheerful holiday for the dead...
...Governor John Connally's Picosa Ranch, the diplomats were later feted by the Johnsons at the U.S. Pavilion and treated to the traditional high jinks of an American Fourth of July celebration-in-cluding fireworks, a picnic atop HemisFair's 622-ft. tower and speechmaking. San Antonio's Independence Day orator was Lyndon Johnson himself, who departed from the standard rhetoric to liken the hopes of the founding fathers to those of the Latin nations today. The goals of those who met in Philadelphia, he told the ambassadors, "are the goals now of the New World...