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Married. John Wayne, 46, leathery cinemactor (The High and the Mighty, Hondo) and fancier of Latin-type ladies ("Some men collect stamps; I go for Latin Americans"); and bosomy, Peruvian-born Pilar Palette, 26; he for the third time, she for the second; in Hawaii...
Guadix (pop. 26,000). on the sun-hammered Spanish plain of Andalusia, is a poor town in a poor land. Along the dusty path to the cemetery of Guadix one day last week, the relations of Paula Pilar Magan carried her body in its rough coffin...
Most Spanish graveyards are places of desolation and decay presided over by gravediggers so thieving and callous that relations often slash the clothes of the dead to keep their bodies from being stripped. At best, the family of Paula Pilar Magan could expect nothing but the hasty dumping of a box into a hole...
Died. Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Stuart Fitz-James y Falco, 74, 17th Duke of Alba de Tormes, Spain's wartime ambassador to the Court of St. James's; after long illness; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Grandest of Spain's grandees, he owned castles in almost every major city, had some 65 titles, including that of Duke of Berwick (a Stuart title not recognized by Britain). When civil war broke out in 1936, the Anglophile Duke sought to swing Britain to Franco's cause. After World War II, he disputed Franco's right to rule...
Even when practice had made good seamen of all the amateurs aboard the Cap Pilar, the vagaries of winds, currents and outdated charts continued to give Skipper Seligman moments of agonizing suspense. The Cap Pilar's adventures-standing off the great surf of lonely Tristan da Cunha, fleeing before the howling westerlies from the Cape of Good Hope across nearly 6,000 miles of ocean to Tasmania, delicately threading between the coral reefs of the South Seas-are fascinating reminders of the age of seamanship...