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When the old Havana-Guanabacoa road was converted into a superhighway, a venerable travelers' shrine known as the Virgin of the Road was destroyed. The Virgin's friends and neighbors, fearful of Cuba's frantic traffic, protested, and the government commissioned Sculptress Rita Longa (seated, right) to make a new Virgin. Still to be consecrated, the new Virgin has been a quick success. Even at night Cubans toss money in the pool, stuff currency in her hand. The money, collected regularly ($112.28 last week), is given to an orphanage...
...Longa. Near Victorville, Calif., a cement truck demolished a sedan, left intact in the wreckage a pamphlet: Accidents Don't Happen...
...items included the tenderest painting in the exhibition, a picture of three lost-looking children done in white, grey and sepia by a young artist named Fidelio Ponce de Leon,* and the most effective sculpture, a torqued Figure (see cut, p. 36) by handsome, 27-year-old Rita Longa. Significantly enough, Rita Longa is chief of the Section of Teaching and Art Appreciation in the Department of Culture under the Cuban Ministry of Education. This department was created after the overthrow of President Gerardo ("Butcher") Machado in 1933 and is regarded by Cuban artists as a great national victory...
...injunction was refused to the Longa Co. and Hacendado Alberto Danadieu: who sought to stop further land expropriation in the State of Sonora. Pudgy-cheeked President Cardenas made plans to supervise personally the land-division in Sonora, where are located the haciendas of such newsmaking names as Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, the John Hays Hammond estate, the Richardson Co. of Arizona...
...theory that Rome was founded by the Etruscans which was brought forward in recent years is entirely untenable, as is shown by the discovery in 1817 of a cemetery, or what must have been the site of Alva Longa. Great jars containing incinerated remains and every description of utensils were unearthed here. The influence of etrusion pottery can be clearly traced. Nowhere was any iron found, so that we may infer that these remains date from the bronze...