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...made a mental note of every hole and soft spot, the oil slicks, the mud clods that could jar a hot rubber tire whirling along at more than 100 m.p.h. Melvin E. ("Tony") Bettenhausen, the year's hottest U.S. driver, and possibly the best since Ralph de Palma, 35 years ago, was planning how to drive a race...
Died. Arturo Alessandri Palma, 81, president of the Chilean Senate, twice (1920-25; 1932-38) President of Chile; in Santiago. A leader of Chile's Liberal Party, a skilled old hand at political give & take, Alessandri (called El Leon-the lion) pulled the strings in many a political deal, helped put President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla in office...
...Mariano Espinoza y Grande, a Mexico City scrap-iron dealer: "I haven't the money, and I wouldn't buy the title [Conde de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe y Peñasco] from Franco if I did have it." Miguel de Rul y Palma, who lives off Mexican real estate and is eligible to be called the Conde de la Valenciana, made it clear that he admired Franco "in all his aspects. But," he added, "I am not paying for the title...
...Italy was at last getting back its looted art, mostly from an Austrian salt mine where the Nazis had hidden it. The rescued treasures included such famed paintings as Bruegel's Blind Leading the Blind, Titian's Danae, Joos van Cleve's Adoration of the Magi, Palma Vecchio's Sacra Conversazione, Tiepolo's Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice...
...Chaco. That was on Oct. 23, 1931. Last month Guggiari got a rousing homecoming reception from members of his Liberal Party. As he spoke to them, an airplane emblazoned with the students' motto, "October 23- Rest in Peace," swept low. As the ex-President rode down Calle Palma, "assassin" and other insults glared from the walls. At the Panteón Nacional, shrine of Paraguay's heroes, students and Liberals met head on. The police charged in. Soon, more heroes decorated the shrine; two lay dead, 39 were injured...