Word: castillos
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...Just before his Dec. 1 inauguration, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines had a visit in his office from a resolute feminist named Amalia de Castillo Ledon. The conversation was brief and businesslike...
Died. General Arturo Rawson, 67, onetime provisional (for 48 hours in 1943) President of Argentina, leader (with General Pedro Ramirez) of the 1943 military revolt against fascist-minded President Ramon Castillo which unexpectedly started Juan Peron on his rise to power, part organizer of the abortive 1945 anti-Peron revolt; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires...
...That was the greatest day of my life," the old priest recalls. Now he had more time for his beloved cave dwellers. Nearly every day, after saying early Mass, he changed into workman's clothes and took off on his motorcycle for Mt. Castillo. Out of the dirt floors came all the apparatus of the cavemen's lives: carved scepters, bone pins and needles, harpoons, stone lamps. Father Jesus' two-room apartment was soon full to overflowing. He appealed to the city for a place to house his collection, and was turned down. Churchmen told him that...
...hoped for: in the middle of a chamber stood a polished stone, carved to resemble a bison. At one side was a thronelike seat for a priest or chief. "This was their main sanctuary," said Father Jesus. "It was their cathedral, the heart of the prehistoric city of Mt. Castillo...
...exploring priest is sure now that Mt. Castillo is one of the places where human society was born. While the glaciers crunched over northern Europe, men sought shelter in caves, and the connected caves of Mt. Castillo offered room for many of them. Somehow they learned to behave less like animals, more like humans...