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...years as a U.S. possession, the island has had three military and 15 civil governors, all presidential appointees. Rexford G. Tugwell was the last mainlander to hold the job, Jesús T. Piñero (1946-48) the first native-born governor...
...Kiss for Bom Jesús. Inside, they moved forward past the gold and white side altars, past the two ornamented Aleijadinho pulpits. The only sound was the soft scuffing of sandaled feet. Reaching the altar, the pilgrims handed their candles to a priest, kissed the recumbent image of Bom Jesús, dropped their offerings in a box beside the altar. Some paused to honor the old tradition of "measuring" the figure with a piece of white binding tape that would later hang in their huts as a souvenir. Then they went back to the dusty hill towns that...
...about that double meaning. There was no such thing. The gag that horrified Mr. Leech had jes' one single meaning. A few days later Gracie Allen used precisely the same gag on the air. American humorists going back from Chic Sale to Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Artemus Ward have all had fun with just such gags. Everybody laughed, nobody griped-just Leech...
Said the Argentine official: "Impossible. All children born in Argentina must be named for saints. Here is the list." It included Francisco, Domingo, Lorenzo, Pedro, MarÍa, Jesúus, Guillermo, etc., but no Glen or Franklin...
...Mario repudiated the confession, and said it had been wrung from him only after he had been starved, threatened with a pistol, and "beaten up like in the time of the Inquisition." Said Padilla: "The darkest chapter in Mexico's history of iniquities." Said Secret Police sub-Chief Jesùs Galindo of Mario's blast: ''Nothing but lies...