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Rivers of the Montaña. One of Belaúnde's major preoccupations is agriculture. He has pushed through the country's first major agrarian reform bill, and it is one of the most sensible in Latin America. Belaúnde knows the les sons of Mexico's disastrous ejido system, does not intend to splinter the big. highly productive cotton and sugar estates into thousands of tiny plots, each barely able to support its owner. Instead he will break up only those that do not carry their weight, and satisfy the peasants' land hunger...
Married. Pablo Casals, 80, famed expatriate Spanish cellist; and Martita Montañez, 20, of Puerto Rico, his fourth wife and his student for the past three years; in San Juan...
Along the montaña, the eastern slope, maybe oil would be discovered. The explorer Humboldt spoke of Peru as "a beggar sitting on a golden throne...
...July 1936, he finished his most ambitious mural, eleven panels containing 140 life-size figures, for Madrid's monument to the founder of Spanish Socialism, Pablo Iglesias. A few nights later Painter Quintanilla made himself a hero of the Republic by directing the attack which took the Montaña barracks in Madrid...
...night, has a dirt phobia, orders coffee before soup when dining out, arrives late for all engagements, laughs in a deafening high-pitched guffaw. The oddities of Mr. Marshall's behavior do not argue lack of acumen. Onetime partner in a small-time vaudeville act with Cinema Director Monta Bell, he built up his string of laundries, conveniently situated in a city where the percentage of stiff shirts and white ties is abnormally high, from a single run-down mangling establishment which he inherited from his father. Convivial, impudent and gregarious, George Marshall is entertained at being accused...