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Where did human society begin? Father Jesus Carballo, 76-year-old priest-archaeologist, believes that it might have had its start near his own parish in Santander, on the north coast of Spain. Father Carballo is chief explorer of Mt. Castillo, a prehistoric cave city where ancient man lived some 12,000 years ago while the glaciers crawled over Europe. After nearly 50 years of work, he has found the heart of the city, deep inside the mountain...
Crowned by a ruined fortress from which it gets its name, Mt. Castillo is 20 miles southwest of Santander in the heart of the Basque country. The rock below the fortress is honeycombed with caves which cross and intertwine. When Father Jesus first came to Santander 48 years ago, none of the caves had been well explored. The young priest, pushing through the dark galleries, found their walls covered with drawings, their floors littered with weapons and tools of paleolithic men. Fired with enthusiasm, he dedicated himself to the task of making those faraway people live again for modern...
...There are three or four portraits in existence with some claim to having been painted in Cortés lifetime. Bernal Díaz del Castillo described him around 1568 as being "of a good height and body and well proportioned . . . His chest was high and his back of a good shape, and he was lean and of little belly...
...test of air delivery began with the May 5 issue in 1941 when the spread of World War II was making hemispheric trade and defense more important than ever before. In fact, the editors had already picked for the cover story Argentina's President Ramón S. Castillo, then tackling the problem of his country's blocked trade to Europe. Twenty thousand copies of this issue, printed on special light paper, were flown by Pan American Clippers to Latin American cities...
...strapless white satin sheath gown with "conversation piece" gloves trailing sweeping panels of white satin lined in champagne tulle. Raphael forsook needle & thread for the saw & hammer, peeled off wafer-thin slices of plywood and riveted them-with diamonds, naturally-to the cape of his suit. Castillo of Lanvin's rose-red skirt, fanning out in a graceful arc "like the petals of a full-blown rose," used 33 yards of taffeta to achieve that effect...