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...Five-year-old Marion Delgado, thinking over a problem he had set himself-how to break a 25-lb. concrete water-meter cover-showed a disastrous bent for physics. He wrestled the slab to the Western Pacific Railroad tracks near San Francisco, confident that the train would do it easily. The Feather River Express rattled down the main line and hit the concrete block, the locomotive and tender jumped the rails, the baggage car rolled over with a crash, and five people were hurt...
...Make no mistake about it, this bureau could hardly get along without Rafael Delgado Lozano...
From his description, journalists the world over would instantly recognize Rafael Delgado Lozano, man-of-all-work in TIME'S Mexico City bureau. Almost without exception, his kind is present wherever there is a newspaper city room, or an editorial office, or a foreign bureau worthy of the name. He is-in many ways-journalism's indispensable...
...especially that to U.S. bureau-men working in foreign countries like Mexico, where it can take three weeks of notarizing & counter-notarizing, witnessing & counter-witnessing just to rent a safe deposit box-but not with Rafael Delgado Lozano around. Rafael, known colloquially as Ralph, on 24 hours notice once arranged to have three divisions of the Mexican Army turned out to parade before the cameras of a MARCH OF TIME unit. That was a major miracle. He performs minor ones almost daily, disappearing into the jungles of official red tape to emerge with just the document a harried correspondent needs...
...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...