Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auguste chanced to meet a sad-eyed seer who called himself Professor Pedro-"Expert in Things Occult." The professor listened sympathetically to Auguste's tale of woe, and bemoaned with him the cruel fate which kept lovers apart. "If only," blurted Auguste at last, "that husband would drop dead!" Well, murmured the professor soothingly, why not? A few hints dropped here & there to the right people in the spirit world-all the professor needed to do the job, in fact, was two pigeon hearts and 27,000 francs. Auguste procured both items...
...best of bridegrooms' plans sometimes go astray. A short time later, Lucienne got a letter from her husband saying he was in the best of health and hoped to be home soon. Auguste raced to Professor Pedro. "Has your mistress ever held your watch in her hand?" the professor asked. "Oh, yes," said Auguste. "Then," said the professor, "give me the watch." From then on, Auguste's watch made it easier for Professor Pedro to tell time, but it brought Auguste no closer to his wedding...
...short, optimistic months of Venezuela's Action Democrdtica government, bright young (31) Leonardo Ruiz Pineda was a cabinet minister. In the same period, tough Pedro Estrada was a small-time detective, spying for various Caribbean dictators. The overthrow of the legally elected A.D. regime by a military junta in November 1948 changed the course of both men's lives...
...year ago, the junta fired its secret police chief and put ex-Gumshoe Pedro Estrada in the job. His orders: get Ruiz Pineda in 30 days. Estrada tracked the resistance boss one night to a Caracas apartment-house district, and surrounded the building with 80 cops. But while Estrada watched, Ruiz Pineda shot his way to freedom. In the months since then, Estrada has been searching Caracas, house by house, for clues leading to the slippery man he knew was never more than a few blocks or a few miles away...
Last week, not long after Caracas' brief dusk, Ruiz Pineda, now 36, was riding in a green Chevrolet through an area of garages, bars and small factories on the city's southern edge. Somehow, Pedro Estrada's men had been tipped off about Ruiz Pineda's route. Two police agents on a motorcycle picked up the Chevrolet. The car stopped and Ruiz Pineda and three others jumped out. The fleeing men and the police exchanged half a dozen shots. One man fell. By the time a crowd had gathered, Ruiz Pineda, his luck...