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Prince Juan Carlos ("Juanito") Bourbon y Bourbon, 13, eldest son of Spain's Pretender Don Juan, reported last week to be the official (i.e., Franco-approved) candidate for the Spanish throne. A shy, spoiled teenager, who is maturing rapidly, Juanito was born in exile in Rome, never set foot in Spain until 1948, when General Franco invited him to study in Madrid. This year, in his fourth year exams at Madrid's blueblood St. Isidro high school-nimble-minded Juanito chalked up grades fit for a king in geography and history, still found time for bicycling, boxing...
...pesetas ($13,700) for a single performance, and his Mexican partner, Carlos Arruza, gets almost as much. This pair has collared so many important fights and so much of the big Mexican bullfight money that they are engaged in a squabble with the Spanish Bullfighters Syndicate, headed by Juanito Belmonte (son of the great Belmonte, who was the master bullfighter in the late '20s). Manolete haughtily says the dispute will be settled "before the bull, not behind the desk." If he stays as good as he has been this season, Manolete will...
Last week, tending his coffee plants in the shade of the banana trees, the average Guatemalan peon knew little enough of these facts. True, he had not seen a blond, German-speaking finquero in years, but the finquero had lived in Guatemala City and Juanito had seldom seen him anyway. More money jingled in Juanito's pocket (his wages were recently hiked from 5? to 50? a day), but higher prices had just about canceled out the raise. He had heard that model government houses, of cement and adobe, might soon be built on his finca. But his boss...
...Indians once caught eagles by lowering a brave down the face of a cliff in a rabbit-net made of red milkweed fibre. Down the Canada de las Uvas, (little canon of the grapes) one Angel Cuilpe, aged 104, showed him traces of wigwam towns; in Palm Canyon, one Juanito Razon, over 100, guided to ancient water holes, painted rocks, caves, sacred stones, magic springs...