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...visiting head of government. Obviously well-coached about the problems that Allende's government is having with falling production, rising absenteeism and soaring wage demands at Chile's newly nationalized mines, Castro vigorously railed against troublemaking "demagogues" and "reactionaries" during a speech at a mine in Pedro de Valdivia. At Chuquicamata, the world's largest open-pit copper operation, he launched into a lecture on productivity. He thundered that "a hundred tons less per day means a loss of $36 mil lion a year...
Take for instance the highlight of the evening's card, the steel cage match between Jimmy Valiant and Pedro Morales. Pedro is a good wrestler, and the fans love him. But Valiant let him walk away with the match. (In case there are some of you who aren't afficianados of the sport, a steel cage match consists of locking two wrestlers into a steel cage and awarding the bout to the one who gets out firs.) Pedro gave Valiant a good solid kick, and Valiant just lay there and let Pedro escape from the cage. He wasn't even...
Some Coincidence. Pondering all this, Padre Pedro Solano, the town's priest, fell back on what he called "the weapons of faith." He decreed a daily penitential procession in which townspeople shouldered a statue of St. Sebastian, the guardian against plague, and asked him to deliver them from crickets. After the initial procession of 500 hopeful believers, the insect horde slackened. After the third came a torrential rain that helpfully washed away countless cricket corpses and held down further attacks...
...experience has left Talese a little jumpy, which probably accounts for the way he stares at every car that passes his front porch. As for Bill Bonanno, says Talese, who recently visited him at the federal prison in San Pedro, Calif., "he never looked better. He has slimmed down, has plenty of time for reading, and appeared as relaxed as he probably has ever been...
...coffin's wooden casing was found to be rotting, but the coffin itself, reportedly of silver with a glass window showing the woman's face, was in excellent condition. So was the corpse. After Evita's death, Perón paid the famed Spanish pathologist Pedro Ara $100,000 to embalm her body the way the Russians had embalmed the remains of Lenin and Stalin. According to one witness, "the body was so natural that it looked like Evita was only asleep...