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...Bogota, Colombia, art lovers think highly of José Rodriguez' painting-especially his nubile nudes. They also think that Rodriguez, a shy and reticent man of 45, is not widely enough known. Last month, in an effort to get him a bigger audience, Director Teresa Cuervo of Bogotá's National Museum opened a four-week show of his work...
...Bogotá's art fraternity was enthusiastic about Rodriguez' luminous beauties. The Spanish ambassador asked to borrow two of them for exhibition in Spain. But decency leaguers, known as the beatas (the pious ones), were scandalized. Father Eduardo Ospina, Jesuit professor of art at the Universidad Javeriana, sided with the beatas: "Crowds don't possess the artistic capacity to appreciate the total beauty of the human body." Bogotá's Roman Catholic archbishop, Monsignor Crisanto Luque, formally asked the Education Ministry (which runs the museum) to take the offending ladies down...
...flag-draped little oil town of El Centro one night last week, a band imported from Bogotá played The Horrible Night Has Ended,* Colombia's national anthem. Then, the Colombian Minister of Development and the president of International Petroleum Co., Ltd. (a Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey affiliate) signed the papers spread out in front of them. After that came handshakes, applause, toasts, speeches. With good feeling all around, International had handed its 2,000-square-mile De Mares oil concession back to Colombia...
Recently in Bogota, Candido, now 90, saw mention in a newspaper of someone named Licht. Diligent backtracking from this clue led him to his son Daniel, a Bogotá poster artist with children and grandchildren. After recovering from his astonishment, Daniel took his father to the frail, 82-year-old wife he had last seen 50 years before. In the cool, brick-floored upstairs hall of the Bogota home for the aged where she lived, they tearfully embraced. Then, white-bearded Old Soldier Candido Licht looked at her, his son,-his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren, and spoke with pride...
Careless Love. In Bogotá, Colombia, Matilde Ramirez applied for a marriage license and learned that she was already legally married because her ex-fiancé, using their previous license to marry another girl, had not bothered to change the names...