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...Spain's Pedro Cardinal Segura y Sáenz, in Don Juan's famous line, hell is a city much like Seville. In his terrible-tempered way, Segura has borne down on the gay, fun-loving people of his Seville diocese, suppressed their dances, banned movies, shuttered nightclubs and anathemized what he regarded as "licentious customs." In pastoral letters, Segura, 73, has longed for the days of the "meritorious Inquisition" and has denounced even Spain's limited religious toleration as falsely assuming that "all religions are equally acceptable in the presence...
...what may well become a major experiment in Good Neighborliness. With $170,000 from the Foreign Operations Administration, the teachers will spend two months studying U.S. public-school methods, will also get some idea of what the U.S. is all about. Apparently, the program has already had effect. Said Pedro T. Cruz of San Carlos University: "I am charmed . . . I am going to take this lesson in democracy back to Guatemala and help remove the Communist poison from the minds of our people." ¶ Worrying about the mounting debt of the world's most famous undergraduate debating society...
...suburb of Linda Mar nestles in the Pedro Valley, 15 miles south of San Francisco, hard by the Pacific shore. So far, only 900 of the development's planned 3,500 homes ($9,500-$! 1,500) have been built and occupied, but bulldozers are hard at work gouging out lots on the hillsides, and scores of concrete foundations dot the valley floor. Despite its unfinished state, the whole community was hustling and bustling one foggy morning last week. Like millions of other youngsters across the nation, the 350 children of Linda Mar were trudging off to the first...
Next morning the lampista, who was Chief Inspector Pedro Polo of the Social Brigade (Spain's FBI), gathered some of his men and went back to the apartment...
...most brilliant aborigines, created in Guatemala a culture that included sculpture, arithmetic, writing and trade (in textiles and featherwork) over a net of fine roads-though they had neither domestic animals nor the wheel. But earthquakes, plagues and tribal wars so weakened them that in 1523-26 Spanish Captain Pedro de Alvarado's 120 horsemen and 500 foot soldiers were able to subjugate 2,000,000 Indians. Spain made Guatemala the viceregal capital of Central America, and enslaved the Indians as plantation labor; an Indian caught riding a horse got 100 lashes. The viceroyalty threw off the rule...