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...replacing some of the departed Liberals, kept his promise of a fair election. Compared to the preelection bloodshed, in which some 200 people were killed, the election went off with unexpected order. Seven men were killed on election day. When the results began coming in, mild-mannered Ospina Perez knew that his ordeal was not ended. The Liberals led by more than 100,000 votes. They again controlled both houses of Congress, but unofficial returns cut their lower house majority from 15 to eight. At week's end, the President still had to choose between inviting the Liberals back...
Dona Luisa Maria Narvaez y Macias, Perez de Guzman el Bueno y Ramirez de Arellano, Marquesa de Cartago, Condesa de Canada Alta, Vizcondesa Aliatar and Duquesa de Valencia, had just spent nine months in the clink. Last week she sat, lithe and beautiful, in the prisoner's dock, her astrakhan coat open wide to reveal the soft drape of a smart beige gown and a length of shapely leg. From time to time as the prosecutor read the indictment, her long, blood-red fingernails fondled a corsage of tea roses at her shoulder as she cast a slow smile...
...original Adelita had become matronly Adela Velarde de Perez, a secretary in a Chapultepec Park museum. A delegate to the Congress of Veterans of the Revolution, her only part in the fuss over her young namesake was to watch the parade from a crowded grandstand. It had been a long time since the bashful sergeant died in the streets of Torre...
...little story laid in Spain during the Inquisition and written in a grave and effortless style modeled on the old chronicles, and sometimes edging over into a bland and amusing parody of them. The story concerns an extraordinary occurrence in the town of Castel Rodriguez: a girl named Catalina Perez, comely, virtuous and 16 years old, who has been trampled by a bull and crippled so that she can walk only with a crutch, reports that the Virgin Mary appeared to her and told her that to be healed she must go to "the son of Juan Suarez de Valero...
Meantime, olive-skinned Andrea Perez, 23, and tar-skinned Sylvester Davis Jr., 27, who are members of the same Catholic parish, now could (under court order) get the marriage license which had been denied them in Los Angeles more than 14 months...