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...Judge. In his story of Cortés, Pizarro and the other conquistadors-Balboa, Coronado, Ponce de Leon, De Soto-Author Descola gives not only gaudy melodrama but also psychological insights, which make the figures on this great tapestry emerge as living men. In the end it was the Dominican, Las Casas, the "Apostle of the Indies," who judged the conquistador's pride. A conquistador himself before he entered his order, he served as a bishop in Mexico and bitterly fought against Spanish officials for the abolition of slavery; history has vindicated his demand that the conquered has equal...
...soldiered in China, stunted in Hollywood and in 1935 discovered Angel Fall, the world's highest (3,212 ft.) waterfall, while chasing down a gold mine over Venezuela; after six months in a coma following a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while he was recuperating after a plane crash; in Balboa...
...members of the San Diego Symphony filed onstage for the second half of their concert at the Balboa Park Bowl last week, they were impeccably dressed in black dinner jackets and black formals. But among them suddenly appeared four raffish young men in beige sports jackets and striped ties. They were the Dave Brubeck Jazz Quartet, there to perform in Howard Brubeck's Dialogues for Combo and Orchestra. It was the first time that a jazz group improvised in a concert with a symphony orchestra...
...phony, vinegary Max Bilgray could also summon a waiter and say coldly: "Bring Mr. Smith the key to the crying room." In a warm salute to Bilgray, President Ricardo ("Dickie") Arias recently drove across the isthmus and awarded him Panama's Order of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa-doubtless a unique honor for a saloonkeeper. Bilgray will not leave Panama now that he has retired; he intends to live out his days in Colón until...
Coast Guard boats closed in, and Smith was transferred to one of them. Radios crackled, and sirens screamed onshore. An ambulance was waiting at Balboa, and when he was riding toward Hoag Memorial Hospital, Smith heard a siren and wanted to know what...