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Back to Rome. Behind the apparent surrender lay a long and bitter assault on the church by Trujillo. The man most responsible for awakening the hierarchy last year was Papal Nuncio Lino Zanini who arrived in Ciudad Trujillo only three months before the pastoral, looked around and told the bishops to fight. After the pastoral, the nuncio received anonymous letters threatening his life. Boston-born Bishop Thomas Reilly found his residence encircled by secret police goons, was trailed wherever he went, was threatened with expulsion, even violent death...
After signing a property settlement (terms undisclosed) with Playwright Arthur Miller in Manhattan, Cinemorsel Marilyn Monroe flitted off to Ciudad Juárez for a south-of-the-border, quickie coup de grâce to their improbable four-year marriage. Marilyn sounded little upset by her sudden move. "I would love to have a plate of tacos and enchiladas" she said...
...Soviet bloc. Six months ago Trujillo's Radio Caribe propaganda outlet adopted a Marxist, anti-U.S. cant in its commentary. Last August the dictator sent emissaries to Europe and began the first of a series of secret meetings with Iron Curtain leaders; rumors are buzzing in Ciudad Trujillo that diplomatic relations will soon be established with Poland and Russia...
...physician gave evidence to back a Solomonic answer that should satisfy both claimants. Professor Charles Weer Goff, who teaches orthopedic surgery at Yale Medical School and physical anthropology at Hartford's Seminary Foundation, says that some of Columbus' remains are in Seville, some are in Ciudad Trujillo...
Back & Forth. While in Spain, Goff also found that not one of the bones in Seville was duplicated in Ciudad Trujillo. His tentative conclusion: Columbus died in 1506 in Valladolid, Spain; his remains were buried in a monastery near Seville; soon after 1541 the bones were shipped to Santo Domingo; rediscovered towards the end of the 18th century, the bones were apparently split up-some being sent to Havana, then back to Seville, the rest remaining in the cathedral; both were buried anew...