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Inactive since 1933 and unsealed for years, Colombia's snow-capped Purace Volcano seemed just the place for an adventurous outing. From the high school at Popayan 24 miles away, 18 students and a truck driver set off one morning last week to climb the mile-high mountain. Except for two students who got tired and lagged a quarter mile behind, the climbers had no trouble getting close to the top. Just as they opened a bottle of rum to celebrate their easy success, a terrific explosion shook Purac...
Last week Molina's statue was the object of pious veneration in the fashionable La Ermita church in Cali. Before Easter it will be taken to 16th Century Popayan for the famed Holy Week procession...
...colonel then took the President and his son out through a crowd of soldiers to a waiting car. Soldiers piled in around them. Truckloads of soldiers stood fore & aft. Off sped the cavalcade toward Popayan, 100 miles away...
...road to Popayan, the abductors of President Lopez abruptly turned around, rattled back through Pasto, turned off on a mule trail. They had heard that the Popayan soldiers were loyal. At 5 p.m. the party stopped for the night at the hacienda of a couple of old-line, embarrassed Conservatives. Liberal President Lopez and son were agreeably entertained...
From Roman Catholic Archbishop Maximiliano Crespo of Popayan, Colombia, a Chicago gem syndicate bought for an unrevealed sum the foot-high emerald crown of Our Lady of the Andes, containing 453 jewels seized by Pizarro in the 16th Century from the collection of Atahuallpa, last of the Incas. Exhibited in Manhattan, the crown was appraised at $4,500,000 by its new owners, who have been dickering for it since 1914 when Pope Pius X gave permission for the sale. Colombia will use the proceeds to build a Catholic hospital and orphan asylum at Popayan...
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