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Bodegas & Charms. In the Barrio (i.e., district), the Puerto Ricans have created their own city. The store signs are in Spanish. At the bodegas (grocery stores) they sell green coconuts, chick peas and mangoes. The carnecerias (butcher shops) sell Spanish sausage, salt pork fat, chicken feet (3 Ibs. for 25?) and salted pigs' tails...
Last week the President's order was executed. The Peronista press no longer reported the doings of Deputy José Emilio Visca, for six months the butcher-boy terror of the Argentine press (TIME, Jan. 16, Feb. 6, Feb. 27). In a new list of members of the congressional committee to investigate anti-Argentine activities, the press-purging committee over which Visca had presided, his name did not appear...
...Butcher"--four miles high in the Peruvian Andes--is the vacation-time target of four Mountaineering Club students...
Several miles from Chiquian is Carnicero, Spanish for "The Butcher." The students will hire a 30-mule team to lug their ton of equipment to base camp...
...stream of settlers is changing the face of the country. Almost every Venezuelan town now has its Italian barbershop and restaurant, its German-speaking innkeeper. San Cristobal has a Russian photographer, Merida a Russian butcher. Near Turen, about 175 miles southwest of the capital, farmers from Andalusia, Tuscany and the Ukraine are tilling new lands cleared for them by government bulldozers. In time, Venezuela hopes, such immigrant pioneers may supply the eggs, fruit and other foodstuffs that the country now imports from...