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Torn from his family and accused of plotting against the government, Juan Cordova Cerna was kicked across the jungled border from Guatemala into Honduras three years ago. Anti-Communist Juan Cordova was a wealthy, well-born lawyer (at one time retained by the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co.) and a bitter enemy of the pro-Communist government that then ruled Guatemala. Last week Lawyer Cordova was again escorted over the border into Honduras. This time the ousting came from the government of President Carlos Castillo Armas, whose 1954 anti-Communist invasion-revolution Cordova had aided mightily...
Arturo De Cordova portrays the husband with the proper combination of brutality and sympathy. When he apologizes after a jealous fit or pounds the floor in frustration after failing to kill his wife, Cordova is a powerfully tragic figure. As his wife, Delia Garces seems sufficiently trapped by her love and her fear of this man. She is terrified when neither her padre nor her mother will believe her story...
...from every pulpit, Argentina's bishops declared that the church believes in rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, but that it also insists on rendering unto God the things that are God's. The letter quoted the "gemlike words" that Hosius, Bishop of Cordova, wrote to the all-powerful Roman Emperor Constantius in 353: "Remember that you are mortal. Fear the Judgment Day. Keep yourself pure for that day, and do not get involved in ecclesiastical matters . . ." Perón's undaunted Information Office, which cares neither for bishops nor emperors, ordered...
...Walking-Around Money. Short told how he had helped Mickey think of a new name for Marguerite Cordova, a Puerto Rican hat-check girl who wanted Mickey to be her pimp. They decided on "Marie Corday," since Cordova "sounded too Spanish for the upper crust." Pat Thompson paid all his household bills, Short explained, and gave him $300 a week "walking-around money." Didn't that amount to male prostitution? asked Assistant District Attorney Anthony Liebler. "Well," snorted Short, "I'm a pretty good cook...
...Jewish Creed. Moses ben-Maimon, often referred to as "the Rambam" (from his title of rabbi plus the initials of his name), was only in his teens when persecution drove his family from their native Spanish city of Cordova to Morocco, and thence to Egypt, where his father died. In old Cairo, young Maimonides became a physician, a profession in which he achieved such great eminence (his works on hygiene, asthma and sex were remarkably ahead of his time) that he eventually became personal doctor to the court of Sultan Saladin. But philosophy was Maimonides' greatest love...