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Four centuries ago, in search of the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado beat a trail along the San Pedro River in southeast Arizona. Coronado never found the fabled wealth of the cities. But in recent years, evidence of other riches-in the form of big copper and molybdenum deposits-has been found by prospectors along the San Pedro. During World War II, the Magma Copper Co., seventh biggest U.S. copper producer, took out an option and set up a subsidiary, the San Manuel Copper Corp., to explore the deposit. In the past seven years...
...West Coast television audience saw a new kind of dramatic show last week. For 15 hours and 50 minutes, a camera boat followed Florence Chadwick (first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions) in her course across the choppy 21-mile Catalina channel off San Pedro, Calif. Finally, cold, exhausted and bucking a four-knot current, she signaled her helpers to pull her into the boat less than a mile from shore...
...sights on the target almost the first day she entered the Archives. It was then that she happened to discover a document concerning a man named Pedro de Lepe, one of the most controversial figures aboard the Santa Maria. A longtime Columbus enthusiast, Alice Gould knew that most historians doubted De Lepe ever existed. The document, she felt, furnished absolute proof that...
...sickly, intense peasant's son who moved from the feet of Philippine Socialist Pedro Abad Santos into the more militant ways of the Communists, Luis Taruc had received none of the marrow-deep Marxist schooling characteristic of the usual Red guerrilla leader. But he had proclaimed loud & often his devotion to Soviet Russia and the Communist ideology...
...Pedro took to his heels and a fortnight later, disguised in women's clothes, was picked up in the captain's cabin of a ship outward-bound for Borneo. He was just fitting a woman's wig to his head when two of Magsaysay's men arrested him. From the papers tucked in his clothes, the agents who captured him soon gleaned even more information: Pedro was not only a Communist spy, he had apparently been marked down for liquidation by the Communists themselves for withholding funds. And where had the funds come from? They...