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Today nine women are serving in Congress, three as federal judges. Twelve of the government's 60 assistant prosecutors are women. The chief of the Federal Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, Maria Cristina Salmoran de Tamayo, 36, has about 150 men working under her-including her own husband. A woman, Maria Lavalle Urbina, runs the federal prison and parole board; Francisca Dolores Valdes de Lanz Duret is president and manager of Mexico City's good grey daily, El Universal. In Mexico City alone there are more than 225 women lawyers; across the nation there are over...
...quints attend separate English-language boarding schools in the Buenos Aires area and see each other only on holidays. They do not look or act alike. Franco is a shy honor student, and Carlos Alberto is a husky athlete. Maria Fernanda is quiet, Maria Esther a chatterbox, and Maria Cristina somewhere in between. But they feel their special ties. The father, an Italian immigrant who got rich with textile mills and vegetable-oil factories, says the five are a kind of "Mafia," with their own secret jokes and fierce loyalty. The children chatter in Spanish among themselves, speak Italian...
...Tempered Clavichord). Packed off to Barcelona to study, he played in a gambling casino to support himself. Said one awed casino patron: "He transformed a cage into a concert hall, and a concert hall into a temple." Eventually, Casals attracted the attention of Spain's Queen Mother, Maria Cristina. who invited him to play and compose at the court. Britain's Queen Victoria soon summoned him to London for a command performance. But his early success gave him little contentment. Tormented by the carnage of World War I, he contemplated suicide, finally settled down in the 1920s...
...parents] does not understand at all, but getting up a teenage party requires agonizing preparation. Henry, a Tyrone Power type with a notably gay mambo style, won't come if Gladys is invited because she just put him in a state of siege (see below). Mariá Cristina can't come without her brother and he is an incunable* of 24, all serious and gummy. When everything is arranged, parents must be convinced that a woman of 14 can wear this dress and this hairdo and lipstick, too. Generally, she does...
...married pretty Maria Cristina Vilanova, vacationing daughter of a wealthy El Salvador coffee-planting family that bitterly opposed her marriage to a foreign nobody. Arbenz brooded because his aristocratic young wife had to do her own housework and even tint photographs (at $1 each) to eke out his $60-a-month lieutenant's pay. He seethed at social injustices-especially his own-and whetted up a sharp hatred for Ubico, who despised most of his officers and carefully confined them to quarters whenever he left the capital. "You can't imagine what it is like to live under...