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...Dominicans. Don't shoot," cried Economics Professor Rafael Estrella Liz. The police agent fired a burst in the professor's face, then sprayed the crowd. Another man, a mechanic, was killed, dozens wounded. The crowd dragged the body of Professor Estrella to the roadside, and for 1½, hours fought off police and firemen armed with clubs and high-pressure water hoses. The police managed to beat the crowd back, hauled the corpse away just 40 minutes before the OAS team passed...
...magazine before subscribing. But I'm convinced now. I have found your February 2 issue just chock full of facts, and I was able to use them at least a dozen times today. For instance, I was in a conversational circle today that was revolving around Bernstein (Estrella Bernstein, our cleaning woman) and I just usually dropped the fact that Cecil B. DeMille was dead. You remember--your latest issue devoted nearly three-quarters of a page to his career as an "epic-maker." My, was I surprised, when Estrella told me he'd been dead since January...
...with Roast Tapir. The first language barrier to be cracked was that of the Cashibo Indians, who live along the Aguaytia River. There the linguists had a lucky start. Near the village of Pucallpa, they found a Cashibo named Gregorio Estrella, who had lived on the coast and learned Spanish. Recalls one of Townsend's team: "Gregorio led us to his tribe. They were so pleased when they found we wanted to live just the way they did that they built a house for us." As a starter, the linguists began asking the names of everyday things: banana, fire...
...Indians of the Southwest, witches still flourish as hardily as desert cactus, and fear of their dark power is as real as the daily struggle for a living. For years there has been no more powerful bruja on either side of the border than sly, dark-haired Maria Concepcion Estrella Miranda, leading practitioner of the occult in dusty Guadalupe, Ariz. (pop. 850). Few in Guadalupe did not believe that she could cause sickness or death simply by sticking bobby-pins with little doughball heads into any of the 200-odd photographs she kept secreted in her middle room...
Until the 43rd Infantry Division entered his life, José Estrella lived on Luzon and helped his parents in the family rice paddies. Before the war he had tried to join the U.S. Army in the Philippines, but he was too small. The Japanese put him into a forced labor camp, cutting wood for charcoal. One day, 17-year-old José slipped away from a work gang, swam across a river and hid in the bamboo grass, waiting, so "I will be the one in Pozorrubio to find the Americans." Three G.I.s took him to headquarters, and after that...