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...election day this week, Paraguay's President Federico Chaves puffed his black cigars and puttered about his two-story house on a jacaranda-shaded street in Asunción. Don Federico could celebrate his 71st birthday and his second presidential victory with calm assurance, for it was a one-man election, Paraguay's fourth since 1948.* Through the day, most of the 200,000 registered voters dutifully visited the polls (under threat of fine) to cast their ballots for him as the candidate of the Colorados, the country's only legal political party...
Paraguay. Rough, remote, army-ridden, ruled by Dr. Federico Chaves, influenced by Perón's Argentina...
...Roman Catholic journal published by the shrine at "Fátima. "In the interests of accuracy," it said, the world should know that the pictures were not taken in 1917 at noontime, but in 1921 during "an atmospheric effect at sunset." L'Osservatore got the pictures through Federico Cardinal Tedeschini, who had heard about them from Dr. Joao de Mendonca, a Portuguese government official and member of the reception committee at the shrine's anniversary celebration last year. Mendonca explained that his deceased brother, an amateur photographer, had taken the pictures of the miracle...
Millions of Roman Catholics revere a spot near Fátima, in Portugal, as the scene of a miraculous appearance of the Virgin Mary. In Fátima last week stood Federico Cardinal Tedeschini, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. To gathered pilgrims he brought momentous news...
...Family. Together the Longoria brothers-Chito, Federico, Shelby, Eduardo, Alfredo-control 69 companies, employ 11,000 workers and gross more than $50 million a year. The brothers got a running start on their empire-building from their father Octaviano Longoria, who died in 1931, leaving his sons a tidy business in cotton, cattle, soap and cottonseed...