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...little newspaper called La Prensa. World War II took him to the U.S.: Washington (as ambassador), Bretton Woods (to help organize the World Bank), San Francisco (to help set up the U.N.). Returning to Peru, he built La Prensa along U.S. newspaper lines into the most influential daily in Lima. He at first supported the army dictatorship headed by Manuel Odria, then helped persuade Odria to eliminate himself by holding the free election that Prado...
...descendants in their ponchos, black pigtails and felt hats, herding Peru's 3,500,000 llamas, vicunas and alpacas. In the country the Indians are still content to dance hand in hand around trees to the sad sounds of stringed instruments plucked in a minor key. In Lima, they pile up in miserable shanties at the rate of 4,000 a year, jobless and hopeless. Says Beltrán: "We are not immune to a Castro...
...Dante, Prefect of Pontifical Ceremonies; Monsignor Antonio Samore, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs; Monsignor Acacio Coussa, Assessor for the Holy Congregation for the Oriental Church; and Monsignor Giuseppe Ferretto, Secretary of the Sacred College. The foreign favorites: Monsignor Juan Landázuri Ricketts, Archbishop of Lima, and Monsignor Jose Newton de Almeida Batista, Archbishop of Brasilia. (The Pope may have decided to withhold Batista's formal elevation until his new archdiocese buildings are dedicated...
...Reason Why. Son of a Lima, Ohio tire and battery dealer, 39-year-old Hugh has picked up most of his post-high-school education on his own. On the Paar show he has been the resident intellectual with a passion for explaining things. The night of the walkout, Paar displayed a toy that worked with magnets, and Downs followed up with a detailed revelation about the existence of positive and negative magnetic attractions. Once Paar told how he had almost tipped over on water skis, whereupon Downs took two minutes to discourse on the mechanics of water skiing. Paar...
...Hugh Downs was program director at Lima's WLOK, moved on to WWJ in Detroit as an announcer before going into the Army in World War II. (He collapsed after a four-week basic training course and got a medical discharge.) During an eleven-year stretch with NBC in Chicago, he got into TV, announced for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, followed that with 894 hours on Arlene Francis' Home show in New York. In addition to his night work on the Paar show, he runs a daytime TV game called Concentration, also has a weekend post on radio...