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Then the President set out to round up the political leaders presumably linked with the revolt. His eye lit on one of Peru's most powerful men, Pedro Beltran...
...experience of Spain's harsh 1936-39 civil war (TIME, Jan. 16). More than 3,000 students signed a petition asking for free election of delegates to a student congress. Because such a student congress would rival the S.E.U., the proposal drew Falange fire; but University Rector Dr. Pedro Laín Entralgo thought it wise to allow the students to blow off steam, agreed to free elections, class by class, in the downtown law school. Last fortnight first-year law students, voting for 20 congress delegates, elected only one man from a full slate of candidates...
Seeing Nelly Home. In Buenos Aires, the newspaper Critica dismissed Perón's threats with a question: "Hasn't Panama measured him for a strait jacket yet?" President Pedro Aramburu and his advisers seemed to sense that madman talk by Perón, who is still revered by millions of diehard Peronistas, provided a tailor-made chance to draw a contrast between the erratic ex-dictator and the sober new regime. The government made three moves that sharpened the impression...
...Walt Disney) is what the trade calls a "wetback," i.e., a Hollywood picture made in Mexico to save money. The story is all about a little Mexican boy (Andres Velasques) and a big chestnut horse that kiss each other. When the horse is condemned to death by its master (Pedro Armendariz), the little boy steals it and becomes what the title so stickily suggests. He hides the horse successively in a smithy, a barbershop, a ruined hacienda, a boxcar, a church. In transit, the camera takes the usual tourist shots of cactus, fiestas, religious processions, fireworks, cactus. They...
...years ago the San Pedro Valley desert east of Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains was inhabited by little more than coyotes and cactus. But after Magma Copper Co. proved up the nation's biggest copper deposit beneath the San Pedro Valley floor, the face of the desert changed. Earth movers terraced the rimrock into 1,500 homesites, bulldozers crunched over thousands of acres to carve out winding avenues, parks, shopping centers, a community swimming pool for the new town of San Manuel (TIME COLOR PAGES, July 25). To house Magma's workers. Builder Del Webb put house...