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Died. Lieut. Colonel Oreste Pinto, 71, master Allied "spy catcher" in two wars, a Dutch-born counterintelligence expert whose command of 13 languages and tenacious memory ("I can still remember not only what presents were given to me on my third birthday but who gave them and when they arrived") led SHAEF Commander Dwight Eisenhower to hail him as "the greatest living authority on security"; of chronic bronchitis; in London...
...intrusion of another human being. During the stillnesses, the narrative wanders to the old tales of what Graves calls "the good and bad and beside-the-point" of Brazos history. He tells of one settler, John Davis, who built the first floorboards in any cabin in the Palo Pinto country, and who, when his bride died in childbirth, tore up the floor to make a coffin...
...room," says Sabbá, and more men are moving into it. Belém-born Isaac Benzecry is processing alligator hides, distilling rosewood (for oils used in cosmetics), curing furs (ocelot, jaguar, otter) and skins (water hog, wild boar, deer). Onetime Belém Fruit Peddler and Cabbie Manuel Pinto Silva now turns out building tiles, cement and lumber, is putting the finishing touches on the Amazon's first skyscraper in downtown Belém. Ukraine-born U.S. Citizen Maurice Kleinberg started Belém's first deep-sea fishing fleet in 1956, now ships giant shrimp...
...explanation, suspected that the microwaves had somehow fatally altered the body's cells. To find out, he began experimenting with lower-powered radio waves at the New England Institute for Medical Research in Ridgefield, Conn. Last week in Britain's Nature, he and Dr. A. A. Teixeira-Pinto reported that their experiments had provided "a new physical method" for manipulating cells and their contents, including the all-important chromosomes in the nucleus...
...they do to poetry. Sample: "Just like birds of a feather, a rainbow together we'll find." When they call their favorite disk jockey, U.S. fans hardly know what to ask for. But whether the title comes out "Domingo," "Nelly Blue" or "Blue Nell Rides a Blue Pinto," even a monolingual jock knows enough to spin...