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...operators is handsome Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, 34. Against the granite-faced opposition of his uncle, Count Matarazzo, Baby took over his family's metals plant a few years ago and made it into the largest nonferrous rolling mill in South America. For his redheaded fiancee, Nelita Alves de Lima, Baby is building a million-dollar house in suburban Santo Amaro with two Turkish baths, a shooting gallery, a bowling alley and an outdoor swimming pool. It will also have a 130-ft. indoor swimming pool with a cascade of water 30 ft. wide and 21 ft. high...
...Lima, Ohio (pop. 49,880) was all set this week for a realistic air-raid test. Twenty-five cops were ready to explode black powder bombs all around the city, ambulances were standing by, and civil-defense workers were waiting to care for the injured. Then the realism got too thick. A bomb exploded prematurely, fatally injuring a policeman. Then another bomb went off ahead of time, and another cop was hurt. An ambulance screaming out on a make-believe run crashed into two cars, sending six victims to the hospital. Because of a mixup, no civil-defense workers were...
...Season. In Lima, Peru, Alberto Galvez Reyna explained to police why he took a potshot at friends who sang a birthday serenade beneath his window: "It was not my birthday...
...years before World War II, Germans are offering more flexible credit terms than their competitors. "Americans often display a take-it-or-leave-it attitude toward their latino customers," explained a German in Lima. "We don't. We plan to treat them better than we treat our customers at home...
...mess kit was a quarter-inch of greasy beef stew and lima beans. "If it wasn't for the food my mother sent me, I'd starve," the recruit said. "Eight lima beans. Count them, eight." The mess corporal was sorry: "I would like to give them more to eat, but there isn't enough to go around. I got to feed 15 or 20 more than my ration every...