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After her sensational Ciudad Juárez debut in 1952, Pat joined the bullfighters' union as a matador de novillos (apprentice fighter of bulls five years old or less), and became the union's first woman member since the memorable Peruvian Conchita Cintron, who quit the bull ring for matrimony in 1950. In the next two years, she killed 80 bulls in Mexico's smaller rings. As soon as her technique matched her courage, said her trainer, she could move on to fight in the big ring of Mexico City. But those goals seem further away...
This money goes toward supporting a health project which the school has been running in cooperation with the Peruvian government for the past five years...
Five years ago the school set up this nutrition center in cooperation with the Department of Nutrition of the Peruvian Ministry of Health. Two to four experts from the school have directed a staff of 12 local doctors in improving the health of this South America country. Currently the program is under the direction of Dr. Philip L. White and his wife...
...Graybiel, one of the top U.S. heart experts. Scores of university laboratories are helping the armed forces. Eager researchers are using themselves as guinea pigs for experiments in low-pressure chambers, on high-speed centrifuges and rocket-powered sleds. They are toiling up the Andes to find out how Peruvian Indians stand the strain of high altitude, breathing radioactive gases, and sweating in 122° chambers on low oxygen...
...officials who detained her at the pier for an hour, then confined her to the New York City area pending a hearing this week. In tearful confusion, Yma wailed: "I didn't kill. I didn't rob. I didn't nothing. What?" Yma and her husband, Peruvian Composer Moises Vivanco (similarly treated when he returned to the U.S. last month), blamed the "professional jealousy" of Yma's rival warblers for hanging "some question of subversion" over both their heads. The immigration officials kept their silence...