Word: pacifico
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...Philadelphia Kaiser-Frazer agency one day last year, swarthy, greying Joe Pacifico heard about a new ECA plan. To encourage U.S. investments abroad and help European recovery, ECA would guarantee the conversion of profits into dollars for any projects that it approved. Joe remembered the old stone quarry near Naples which he had helped his father work as a boy. His brother Eugene and sister Carmela still ran it with primitive methods and materials...
Leather-toughened and calloused by the jungle, wild-haired and wild-eyed, Pacifico Batista a month ago burst from the wilderness where he had hidden 15 years and scared an old crone into hysterics by his mating gestures (TIME, Sept. 27). Last week, from the little Argentine border village of Itacuarare, where Batista was captured by five policemen and an awestruck populace, came a picture of El Tarzan...
...jungle village of Itacuarare live gentle, simple folk who gather herbs and mate in the forests, do a little innocent smuggling across the nearby Brazilian border and often wag their heads over the legend of Pacifico Batista. Fifteen years ago handsome young Pacifico quarreled with his dark-eyed Itacuarare sweetheart, disappeared into the jungle and was seen no more...
Crouching in his cell, he at first flung his food away, spoke only in grunts. But by coaxing and offerings of raw meat, the villagers last week finally got a few words of broken Spanish and Portuguese out of him. It was indeed Pacifico Batista. His sweetheart had long since left the village. As for Pacifico, all he wanted was to get back to the jungle...
...crimp the political chances of his son Malcolm who. as Secretary of State for the Dominions, hustled back from the Brussels Conference last week to arrange his father's funeral. Because doctors worried greatly over Scot MacDonald's increasing melancholia, he was sent on the Reina del Pacifico cruise with his youngest daughter, Sheila, for companion. With his body still at sea. the British Government proffered him the honor of a Westminster Abbey burial. This the MacDonald family politely refused. For years Ramsay MacDonald had hoped to be buried in his beloved Lossiemouth, beside his still more beloved...