Word: pedro
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...Hidebound. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, after Pedro Serafim, 25, fired two bullets into his head, another two into left lung, hit himself over the head with a hatchet, and began working on his throat with a saw, neighbors rushed him to a hospital where doctors pronounced him in good condition...
...most hated man in Peru," says Premier Pedro Beltrán, 63, and perhaps he is right. In an Andean country where the bulk of the people are impoverished Indians, Beltrán is a rich capitalist, a conquistador-descended aristocrat...
...close-hand look once again at such stars as the White Sox's Luis Aparicio (Venezuela's Rapinos), the Indians' Vic Power (Puerto Rico's Ca-guas), the Giants' Orlando Cepeda (Puerto Rico's Santurce Crabbers) and the Senators' Pitcher Pedro Ramos (Cuba's Cienfuegos Elephants). In addition, U.S. teams use the Caribbean leagues to season their young players, this year sent down some 350 men to sweat in the winter sun. The result was a brand of ball not far from major-league standards...
...Garcia heard details of a swindle in the government's farm-credit agency, he fired all the top directors and installed a nonpolitical board of governors. He did the same with the government-run National Marketing Corp. Next he turned to the Cabinet itself, firing Secretary of Commerce Pedro Hernaez, the party treasurer, whose strategic position made him an ideal political fund raiser among businessmen. He also fired Finance Secretary Jaime Hernandez, whose job included the granting of dollar import licenses. As new Finance Secretary he named energetic Economist Dominador Aytona, 41. budget commissioner under the late incorruptible President...
Swashbuckling into Guatemala more than 400 years ago with soldiers, priests and instructions to Christianize the heathen, Conquistador Pedro de Alvarado took thoughtful note of the fact that much of the rites of the Mayas' animistic religion resembled Roman Catholicism. The Mayas burned candles and incense, venerated relics, held processions. Alvarado's priests seized on the common ground; they gave the local gods the names of saints, the Virgin and Christ, and pushed on to convert other pagans...