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...since the High Priests of Thebes labored lovingly over the corpses of Libyan Pharaohs has there been such big news in the embalming business. In Manhattan last week, Dr. Carlos José Rodriguez Fernández, a Venezuelan dentist, announced that he has concocted "a fluid which will destroy putrefaction from the face of the earth." He has the well-preserved carcasses of a donkey, a dog and a 1,500-lb. horse once ridden by Venezuela's late President Delgado-Chalbaud as mute monuments to his success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Preservation | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Born. To General Fulgencio Batista, 52, Cuba's strongman President, and Second Wife Marta Fernández de Batista, 30 : his seventh child, fifth son, her fourth child, fourth son; in Havana. Name: Fulgencio José. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 9, 1953 | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Minister of Education Armando Méndez San Martin, unwilling to appear less ardent than Aloé, joined in the brainwashing. Fixing on the Estrada publishing house as the worst offender, he banned its third, fourth, fifth and sixth-grade readers. Last week cops raided schools and stores to confiscate Estrada books. Congress lent a helping hand: it made Eva Perón's The Explanation of My Life required reading for all schoolchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Peroncito, the Brainwasher | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...Spanish exploration of the New World. Ever since 1778, when Charles III ordered that all letters, papers and maps concerned with the colonies be assembled in one place, scholars have been flocking to Seville. But the most tireless researcher of them all-from Washington Irving and Martin Fernández de Navarrete to Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison-has been Alice Bache Gould...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alice in Seville | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

Soon afterward, Batista married his present wife, Marta Fernández. The President had literally run into her with his car a few years earlier while she was riding a bicycle down Fifth Avenue in Havana's swank Miramar district. She has borne Batista three children. He also had three children by his first wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Dictator with the People | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

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