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...with diamonds and emeralds she signed the shortest law in Brazil's history. It read: "As of this date, slavery in Brazil is declared extinct." It was a great triumph for the plump, fair-haired young princess, then acting as regent for her absent father, Emperor Dom Pedro II. In ten days, after she had reformed the cabinet, she pushed the emancipation bill through the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Commoners and courtiers joined in celebration, but the princess' ousted prime minister sardonically predicted: "She has freed a people, but she has lost a throne...
Died. Ezequiel Pedro Paz, 81, editor and publisher (1898-1943) of Argentina's La Prensa; in Buenos Aires. A towering, pince-nezed aristocrat, he made the newspaper founded by his father into one of the world's great dailies, equaled only by the New York Times in international coverage. He wrote his own, firmly righteous editorials, personally tongue-lashed employees who fell below his lofty standards and exiled them from the office for a week (with full pay). Editor Paz was so sure that La Prensa could never publish an untruth that ten years after it erroneously reported...
...jeweled decoration that King Alfonso XIII had given him ("What use have I for this fancy bauble?"). He began a special class for future teachers, started his two nephews toward the priesthood. Today, 30 years after his death, Ave Maria still flourishes, run by 75-year-old nephew Pedro...
...Father Pedro manages the school with 14 Ave Maria alumni. Each hedged-in classroom plot has a shed to guard against sudden showers, but the only closed building on the campus is a chapel decorated by gypsy painters. Geography is taught on large relief maps that have fresh water coursing through their lakes and rivers. Students cross the Straits of Gibraltar in a stride, hop the Mediterranean, stand on capital and continent while they sing their lessons. As they learn arithmetic, they themselves represent numbers, move about like chessmen singing easy, arithmetic rhymes. In other classes, they act out Spain...
Perpetual Games. From 9 to 5, with an hour off for a bowl of soup, Ave Maria's students play at their perpetual games. And with his black cape flapping behind him, Father Pedro strides among them, swinging his schoolmaster's pointer, stopping to laugh and chat just as his uncle once did. "We have followed the path he has traced for us," says he. "It is a path of laughter, fun and achievement...