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Quintet of Questions. Meetings of the synod will take place in the Vatican's "Cantina delle Teste Rotte" (Cellar of Broken Heads).&* Two of three presiding officers at the meetings-William Cardinal Conway of Ireland and Pericle Cardinal Felici, the secretary-general of Vatican II-are generally regarded as conservatives. The agenda ignores the two most bothersome issues facing the church today-priestly celibacy and birth control. Instead, the bishops are expected to focus on a quintet of less pressing questions: canon-law reform, updating doctrine, seminary renewal, mixed marriages and liturgy...
...lazy Sunday afternoon in the lush Cauca River Valley, deep in the Colombia interior, where the look of peace can be deceptive. Near the town of Toro, men shuffled easily down the dirt road from the cantina; women sat idly in their front yards. Then along the irrigation levee swaggered a dozen young men dressed in soldiers' olive drab, carrying submachine guns and pistols. They blocked the road in front of the hacienda La Punta and grabbed everyone who came along, robbing them and clubbing some unconscious. Then they settled back in ambush for a man they had marked...
...heroine of his picture (Betsy Blair, who also played the plain girl in Marty) is "a real scarecrow," according to the village bucks who drink away the afternoon at the cantina and fool away the night at the burdel. Worse still, she is not even rich. One day, mostly for want of anything better to do. they decide to play a practical joke. One of them is assigned to make love to her, propose to her, and at the very last minute, maybe just before the wedding, tell...
Last week 14 brand-new recordings began spinning on Italy's phonographs. Made by such top performers as the two Fasanos, a blonde-brunette sister team, and Singer Carla Boni and the Angelini Orchestra, the tunes were the kind that might be danced to in any cantina, whistled by any office boy. But the lyrics were different. Sang the Fasano sisters to a one-step that sounded something like The Donkey Serenade...
...tenement, children shriek, dogs bark, chickens scurry around, and women drop their housework to listen to his loud, lively songs. Then coins drop from some of the windows, and his partner scrambles for the centavos. Late in the day, dusty and tired, he finds his way to a corner cantina. "Do we make a deal?" he asks the barkeeper. "Why not?" says the barkeep, and pours out a liter of pulque. Wiping the milky froth from his lips, the organ grinder then reels off three numbers that have the hod carriers at the bar singing at the tops of their...