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Reprimanded by his commanding officer, Draftee José García Macías, 20, shot at him four times. When the officer Captain Galo Quevedo dropped to the ground, García concluded he had killed the captain and committed suicide. The officer arose unharmed. But next day when Quevedo went to García's funeral, the mourners turned into a mob chased him to the officers' club, besieged him with guns handed them by draftees. After an eight-hour battle, Quevedo staggered out, clothes aflame. He was shot down and his body was dragged through...
...President. When the news broke a fortnight ago that Carlos Castillo Armas had deposited the check to his bank account, he promptly volunteered a calm and reasonable explanation: the $25,000 represented nothing more sinister than the repayment of a personal loan to an old friend, Mario Bolanos García, head of Comercial Guatemalteca. But the explanation left some king-size questions: Why was a personal loan repaid with a check on Comercial Guatemalteca, instead of with Bolanos' personal check? Why did wealthy Businessman Bolanos go to the President for a loan instead of to a bank...
...forbidden to wear in public. With him walked his chief aides: Tranquilino González, president of Querétaro's Chamber of Commerce; John Herbert, English owner of Querétaro's ice factory, and three other businessmen and lawyers. All were followers of Father Salvador García, the Querétaro priest who organized the first pilgrimage 57 years...
SELECTED POEMS OF FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA (56 pp.)-Translated by Stephen Spender and J. L. Gili-Transatlantic Arts...
...Federico GARCíA Lorca was a versatile Spaniard, a painter, musician, actor and dramatist as well as a poet. Since his death his reputation has continued to grow. Like most reputations, it has an element of the factitious. Lorca took no part in the Spanish republican movement, far less in the revolutionary uprising of the Left. He resented the political demonstrations that were made in Barcelona in 1935 on the occasion of one of his plays. Inevitably, however, Lorca's assassination made him a hero and a martyr of the republic. Whether he knew...