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...ailing Evita Peron held out for a C.G.T.-owned paper and won). Its editor is Martiniano Passo, who edited Evita's own daily, Democrada. He had lured in only one top newsman from the old La Prensa, Luis Maria Alvarez, once an intimate of former Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz, now in voluntary exile...
...president of the Argentine newspaper La Prensa, Alberto Paz, said after his visit to America that it was not the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls that was the most remarkable thing he saw, but the Princeton honor system, and he might well think...
...Epperson's clothes, too. She then took Donald and the hunk of metal to Albert Law, editor of the Dalhart Texan. Law, in the belief that it might be a meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size of a pea. Beck found that the substance had a density of 18.63 (density of lead: 11.34). A commercial chemist in Albuquerque confirmed...
...chemist asked: "Have you been handling this stuff?" When he learned that they had, he advised them to get an immediate medical checkup. La Paz and Beck tried to hide their fear by kidding. Said Beck: "You're going to look good, focusing a telescope with your teeth." Countered La Paz: "And what will people think of one of the country's best bridge players shuffling cards with his elbows...
Later, La Paz remembered: "We kept counting our fingers every few minutes...