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Javier Heraud Perez was a Peruvian of real promise. His father was a respected Lima lawyer, his older brother a brilliant electronics engineer doing postgraduate study in England, his family one of distinguished lineage. Two years ago, as a 19-year-old student of literature at Lima's Catholic University, Javier won acclaim as one of Peru's best young poets when he published his first volume, El Viaje (The Journey). In the world of the arts, he had many friends of the far left, but he seemed enough his own master to separate friendship from politics...
...students' self-confidence has been strengthened by political events since the war. In that period, two dictators have been overthrown, Gomez in 1945 and Perez Jimenez in 1958, both by revolutionary movements that began at the university...
Also elected were Dimitri S. Villard '64, of Eliot House and Geneva, Switzerland, public relations director; Perez C. Ehrich '64, of Adams House and Arlington, Vt., advertising manager; Joseph T. Ryan '66, of Thayer Hall and Manchester, subscription manager; and Phillip M. Howe, '66, of Thayer Hall and Newton Center, circulation manager...
...Cristobal las Casas, a mountain town in Southern Mexico, supplies the Indians of the surrounding hills with hardware, priests, guns and other essentials. Among the town's small traders and farmers, few are envied as much as Domingo de la Torre Perez, who serves as a paid informer for Harvard University...
...never want to go over the heads of the people," says Jesus Perez, pastor of Puerto Rico's largest Pentecostal Church. "We want to go directly to their hearts." Never swerving from this philosophy, the Pentecostals have won converts almost faster than they can be totally immersed. Booming throughout the world, the Pentecostal movement has attracted the nominally Roman Catholic people of Latin America with a missionary effort that makes it the fastest-growing Protestant church in the Western Hemisphere...