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...Lottery (government percentage: 19%) and the well-taxed (15%) wagers on the jai alai games at the vast downtown Frontón, citizens of Mexico City not tony enough for brincos find plenty of ways to risk their money. Some go to the cockfights at the Posada de los Cuatro Caminos, just outside the Federal District limits, where pesos change hands with every spur-thrust. Thousands play la bolita, an illegal policy game paying off 80 t01 on the last two numbers of the regular winning National Lottery ticket. In the bullfight fans' cafés such...
...give out. Mountain Indian boys, with no idea what the war was all about, were conscripted in herds and sent to die in the steaming Chaco. Last week t'.ie lighting Paraguayans struck back and Fort Saavedra fell. So did two more stockaded mounds known as Forts Cuatro Vientos and Bolivar. Slaughtered were 15,000 Bolivian troops, 1.700 within two days. Nine regiments surrendered unconditionally. Of the Bolivian army.in the field only the 7th Division remained intact. General Kundt, old and broken, was promptly relieved of his command. Somehow Col. Enrique Penaranda had managed to wriggle through the encircling...
...Cuatro Vientos (''Four Winds") is the name of the military airport near Madrid where, three years ago, Major Ramon Franco (''The Spanish Lindbergh") led a dramatic but abortive revolt by 500 Spanish aviation officers and enlisted men. One of Major Franco's followers was Lieut. Joaquin Collar. Last week at Tablada Airdrome, near Seville, Lieut. Collar and Captain Mariano Barberan, bald-pated air hero of the Moroccan war, climbed into a long-snouted Breguet biplane named Cuatro Vientos. Lumbering beneath an enormous fuel load (1,400 gal.) the plane took more than a half-mile...