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Since Christmas just three rains have fallen on Bogota. But not one drop has touched the city's reservoir, 15 miles away at Regadera (which means "shower bath" in Spanish). Intimidated by the brassy skies, duly alarmed by the nearly empty "shower bath," local authorities last week urged all Bogotanos to get out of town if they possibly could. Some water mains were already dry. Schools were beginning to close down. Washing an automobile was declared a crime...
Catholic, democratic Colombia last week rocked with a Guy Fawkes scandal. Almost on the eve of Congressional elections, police surrounded the impressive colonial Cathedral of Bogota. Before a party of Church and Government officials who sped to the scene, they respectfully uncovered 800 bombs in the organ loft...
President Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo, temporarily discommoded by something that tried to be a revolution, President Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo, temporarily discommoded by something that tried to be a revolution, returned to work in Bogota...
...Individual Madness." In Bogota, news of the revolt reached Government Minister Alberto Lleras, who promptly rallied the cabinet around Vice President Dario Enchandia. Garrisons had also revolted in Bucaramanga and Ibague. Acting President Enchandia declared a state of civil war, called the revolt "an act of individual madness...
Dilly-Doily. In Bogota, N.J., sidewalk superintendents watched two steeple jacks climb 750 feet to repair the smokestacks of the Continental and Federal Paper Co., wondered as one of them began to embroider a doily while waiting for a fresh batch of cement, eventually discovered they were lady steeple jacks...