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...mambo's relentless rhythm had already caused at least one homicide (in Mexico), had driven its practitioners to such wild exuberance in Peru that Cardinal Juan Gualberto Guevara of Lima denied absolution to anyone who danced it. In its fast, Afro-Cuban syncopation, the percussion instruments thump down on the offbeat while the brasses go up in high blaring dissonance. Its tunes have such titles as Mambo No. 5, El Ruletero (the taxi driver) and Pachito 'Eche, whose words in typical rhythm, go: "Who is it, who is it? I will...
...point a rumor spread that the learned judges were thinking of ordering a bathing-suit parade for their own eyes alone. Following the maxim expressed by one woman, "Never trust old gentlemen who are not too old," several mothers of contestants turned to Juan Gualberto Cardinal Guevara for advice. The cardinal gravely informed the tribunal that a bathing-suit parade, public or private, would be contrary to religion and modesty. The girls appeared fully clothed...
...four days last week the eleventh U.S. Provincial Eucharistic Congress celebrated the centenary of the Roman Catholic diocese of Buffalo. Among the high ranking prelates from six countries were Peru's Cardinal Guevara and Brazil's Cardinal de Vasconcellos Motta-the first South American Cardinals ever to attend a U.S. Congress. New York's Cardinal Spellman told the Congress: "It is folly for us to deceive ourselves that we are at peace, for in truth we know naught for which we fought has come to fruit. The whole world and every human in it today face...
...Interior, was replaced by tall, serious Lieut. Colonel Alfredo Pacheco, chief of the Air Force, who once studied flying in the U.S. Twenty-nine-year-old Rafael Otazo, vehement against nearly everything, replaced Minister of Agriculture Carlos Montenegro, who has much the same reputation. Nervous, nationalistic Walter Guevara became Secretary General of the Government in place of Augusto Cespedes, moving spirit of the newspaper La Calle, once blacklisted...
Luis Herrera Guevara, who has not a hair on his head, sports a black wig in winter, a reddish one in summer. He admits: "Often I make mistakes, put two balconies on a house when there should be three. . ." This does not bother his admirers...