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...first Galahad is reluctant; he says he doesn't know if he has the Gual to divide Diana in two parts...

Author: By John A. Cloud and Beth L. Pinsker, S | Title: AN EVENING WITH KNIGHTS IN SHINING DRAG | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

Cooked Beans. Surveys indicated that the tremor had devastated a tragic triangle of 2,700 sq. mi., extending from Siquinalá in the south and Gualán in the northeast, above the so-called Motagua Fault (see box). Even as dazed survivors stumbled out of the wreckage of 40 towns and villages, massive aid appeared. The first relief came from Guatemalans whose towns had been spared and who reached out to help. In the highlands village of Patzún, which had been almost totally leveled, a truck bearing tortillas and beans appeared; it had been sent from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Death in the Tragic Triangle | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

When Graves is playful, and he sometimes is, he is as cheerful and civilized as Auden. Some alphabetical intrali-gual fun in a poem called "H" produces as its last word the best word to sum up the quality that permeates this book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long E in Greek | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

When the proclamation announcing Franco's fourth Cabinet in 20 years (the others: 1936, 1945, 1951) appeared three days later, the big surprise was not the points award in the Monarchist-Falangist struggle but the appointment of respected Economist Pedro Gual Villalbí to take charge of Spain's downsliding economy. Spaniards noted that four of the 18 Cabinet members belong to Opus Dei, an ascetic Roman Catholic secular order which leans more on the Vatican than on the controversy-torn Spanish clerical hierarchy and has long campaigned against graft in government. Said Franco: "They bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: New Era Cabinet | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Last week the official commission, headed by Manuel Gual Vidal, Minister of Education, made a bone-chilling announcement. "The documents and copper disc inscription," it stated flatly, "are both false . . . Taking into consideration the examination of the human bones [which turned out to be those of five persons, one of them a woman and at least two children], this commission concludes that there are no scientific proofs to permit confirmation that the remains are those of the Emperor Cuauhtemoc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Whose Bones? | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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