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...Season. In San Juan Bautista, Calif., Catrino M. Lugo aimlessly fired a .45 pistol near the Casa Maria social hall, learned too late, after his speedy arrest, that a score of policemen were having a banquet there...
After the Marines left, Sandino came down from the mountains to make peace with Moncada's successor, President Juan Bautista Sacasa. Sacasa, worried about Tacho's growing power, decided to cultivate Sandino as a counterforce. On the night of Feb. 21, 1934, he asked him to dinner in the presidential palace overlooking Managua. Somoza spent the evening at a party in the Guardia's barracks...
...side of the hill that was Selkirk's lookout is a bronze tablet, put up in his memory by the captain and officers of a British ship which visited the island in 1868. Hard by the beach where Crusoe found Friday is now a fishing village, San Juan Bautista. In it live most of the 560 Juan Fernándians. Sixty live on the smaller island of Más-a-Fuera, 90 miles farther out. Santa Clara, third of the group, is uninhabited...
...Juan Bautista has no movies, only three stores. Streets are mud lanes, and there are no hotels. The single school-house takes pupils only through the third grade. The islands have no doctor...
...like Bob Sproul, who is Rotary's best foot forward.† He works hard trying to make everybody happy. At the freshman receptions, Sproul turns on what he calls his "astonishing memory," amazes and flatters a newcomer by pumping his hand and roaring: "Dan Baxter from San Juan Bautista? Why, you must be Arnold Baxter's boy. Class of 1917, wasn...