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...Juan Cabezon, descendent of converted Jews. Orphaned as a child, witness to his mother's violent murder, the protagonist has survived in the Medieval town of Madrid by his wits, with the guidance of some of Castile's most suspicious characters. These include the blind and bumbling beggar Pero Menaque, an accidental prophet who reappears throughout the novel to inflect the protagonist's course. He leads Cabezon through the darkest, dirtiest quarters of Madrid, introducing him to the beggars, scoundrels, prostitutes and pariahs that constitute Madrid's other life...
Officially, Paradise opened for business in July, 1769, when Father Junípero Serra, alias Charlton Heston, planted the Cross at San Diego, establishing California's first mission. This year the state is celebrating its bicentennial with dutiful if lackluster civic ceremonies. Fortunately, perhaps, most Californians are too busy having fun to pause for renditions of their state song...
...feather? Not really. The beard on the new Cuban 13-centavo stamp belonged not to Fidel but to Abraham Lincoln, whose likeness appeared below his famous admonition: "Se puede engahar a todo el pueblo parte del tiempo, se puede engahar a parte del pueblo todo el tiempo, pero no se puede engahar a todo el pueblo todo el tiempo." The lines-more familiar to Americans as "You may fool all of the people some of the time," etc.-were obviously meant to refer to the Yanquis. Cubans may just possibly apply them to someone else...
...minded Olivetti company, biggest European maker of typewriters and calculating machines; it purchased 34% of Underwood's stock for $8,700,000. When Underwood's President Frank Beane made the deal, he expected to keep running the company. But the late Adriano Olivetti and his successor Giuseppe Pero (TIME, March 21) had different ideas of the way to cure Underwood's troubles. Out went Beane and most of Underwood's aging top management. They were replaced by a crack Olivetti team headed by ebullient Ugo Galassi, 47, who had organized a U.S. sales subsidiary for Olivetti...
...Giuseppe Pero, 66, was elected president and chief executive of Italy's Olivetti company, succeeding Adriano Olivetti, who, before his death fortnight ago, transformed his father's small typewriter business into a worldwide manufacturer of office machines and machine tools. Directors passed over Olivetti's son Roberto and several other Olivetti family members to pick stumpy, white-maned Pero, the shrewd, early-rising (5:30 a.m.) executive who has been director general since 1938. He is expected to let Adriano Olivetti's political adventures (i.e., his Community Movement) die, devote all his efforts strictly to business...