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...ornate palace he is occupying for a second term (his first: 1939-45), wispy, white-haired President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, 69, told TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho in elegant French: "Be tranquil, mon cher. There will be no collapse." Quite possibly he was right. In a strange alliance, this dandified scion of the rich class that Peru calls "the oligarchs" has teamed up with Ramiro Prialé, 55, the revolutionary who bosses Latin America's greatest mass political movement, the Apra, to put Peruvian democracy on a working, paying basis...
Next time around, the full experiment worked. On command, the satellite erased the Teletype message and recorded a voice message: "This is Prado Dam. United States Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory, Corona, Calif. We are transmitting the President's message . . ." Queried by the tracking station in Texas, the satellite repeated the message "loud and clear...
...suddenly much in the modern air. Last week Salvador Dali turned up in New York with a new painting called Velásquez painting the Infanta with the lights and shadows of his proper glory. The Infanta is only shadowily visible through the darkly luminous galleries of the Prado. Explains Dali, sighting along the points of his caliper-style mustache: "The new was and is through Velásquez. Abstract expressionism is in the details of Velásquez, in the brush strokes...
...rich in. family detail and warmth was the painting that it became a royal favorite for two generations; it now hangs in Madrid's Prado. Scholars have long since identified the room Velàsquez pictured as one in Madrid's Alcazar. They recognized the painting hanging below the ceiling in the left background as the Pallas and Arachne originally ordered by Philip IV from Rubens in 1636 for the Torre de la Parada, the royal hunting lodge near Madrid...
...church suggesting that Prado had been forced into his first marriage? Without answering that question, a Vatican spokesman in Rome certified that the Peruvian President's grown children are not illegitimate, since they had been "sired in good faith." He conceded that the Prado case got "extremely rare" Vatican consideration. Instead of passing the decision of Lima's ecclesiastical marriage court to the Sacred Roman Rota for final action as is customary, the Pope appointed a special committee of cardinals to review Lima's decision. The deliberations took "several years." In the end, the cardinals' committee...