Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHARLES M. CLEMENSEN San Pedro, Calif...
Before she became a minesweeper, the U.S.S. Magpie worked in the California fishing fleet as a dragger or purse seiner, and she was known as the City of San Pedro. In 1936 the Navy bought her and 20 sister boats, gave them each a 3-in. gun, gear to catch something more deadly than tuna, and names from the birds, such as Bunting, Crossbill, Crow, Puffin and Heath Hen. They all had wooden hulls, so thin that a dummy torpedo dropped in practice from a plane once sank one. Still, the Magpie and her sisters, not without casualties, served...
Craig is now regarded as a model of decorum, but there is evidence that in his youth he was something of a gay blade. On weekends he used to ride at breakneck speed into the town of San Pedro de Macoris on a noisy, dust-spurting motorcycle, seriously disturbing a Marine captain attached to Santo Domingo's Guardia Nacional, who rode into town at the same time on a mule named Josephine. The mule-rider, Gregon Williams, is now chief of staff of the 1st Marine Division and he and Craig are close friends...
Dancing in the Wind. One evening last fortnight, a wandering TIME correspondent found the whole population of San Pedro, on Lake Titicaca, dancing in the waterfront plaza. Nobody seemed to notice the icy winds whistling off the lake. The mayor and all the other officials were looping. The only sober man in town was the innkeeper, a young Croat refugee...
...bicho, Brazil's popular numbers game, was started in the reign of Pedro II (1841-89) to encourage attendance at a public zoo. Nowadays it pays off on numbers drawn daily in great secrecy by the game's racketeer bankers. The numbers on which wager-loving Brazilians gamble represent 25 different animals. A sequence of four consecutive double numbers is assigned to each animal, ranging from the eagle (01, 02, 03, 04) to the cow (97, 98, 99, 00). Odds depend on whether a player stakes his bet just on the animal-any one of four possibilities...