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...What hit us especially hard this week was the inaugural," said Harvard Motor House manager Catalino Rodriguez, refering to the installation of Neil L. Rudenstine as the 26th president of Harvard yesterday...
...uncommonly devout even for a country that is 85% Catholic. And if Cory inspires faith, it is largely because she is inspired by it. Three of her closest advisers are Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila; Father Joaquin Bernas, president of the Jesuit Ateneo de Manila University; and Father Catalino Arevalo, another Jesuit, who is her spiritual adviser. Addressing the governors of the Asian Development Bank and 1,200 international delegates two months after coming to power, she frankly declared, "I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles...
...such bracero is compact, mustachioed Catalino Delgado Morales, 26. A stevedore like his father, he usually works on the United Fruit pier. About three or four days of the week his name moves high enough on the union hiring hall's list for him to get taken on. Then, togged like the rest of the gang (some 365) in old pants, shoes and T-shirt, he wallops sacks of sugar, coal, assorted cargo from 7 till 5. At week's end he may have earned...
This, says Catalino, is just about enough to pay the bills. With his wife Violeta and their two-year-old son, he lives in two rooms (rent: $18 a month) in the working class barrio of Jesus del Monte. Most days Catalino comes home to a dinner of beans and rice, and Sundays, before going out to the ball game, he favors arroz con polio. But rice is almost as scarce as meat these days, and lately Violeta has filled out the meal with vegetables...
Docker's Saturday Night. Some evenings Catalino likes to put on his suit, stop for a beer at the corner bodega, and then take a turn at the rumba at the neighborhood dance hall. More often lately he has hurried away to a union meeting. But, though Catalino is a good unionist, forking up 30? a day for dues and the benefit fund, and never failing to consult his delegate on all important matters, he is no Communist. He voted for Grau and the Autentico Party at the last elections, and he goes to church, though not quite...
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