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...painful doubt has entered the hearts of all Peruvian Roman Catholics," said a letter published last week in Caretas, a Lima magazine. "It is very difficult to believe that after more than 40 years of marriage, the church has found that Enriqueta Garland was not President Prado's wife but only his concubine. Does this not make their children, Manuel and Rosa, illegitimate...
Neglected Neighbors. Real grievances as well as Communist leadership went into South America's anti-Nixon demonstrations, and Peru (pop. 9,900,000) has its share of troubles. Historically, Peru is a firm U.S. ally. Conservative President Manuel Prado is pro-U-S.-and so is the big, left-of-center APRA Party, which in a marriage of convenience put Prado into office two years...
Rebels in a truck looted a waterfront gunshop; police attacked, and the day's main battle, an hour-long fire fight, followed. At noon an explosion blasted a hole on the famed, tree-lined Prado, setting a gas-main fire that burned with 30-ft. flames until late at night. Youths in cars threw bombs; power and phones went out in parts of the city. Some workers walked off their jobs in banks and stores. But by 12:30 an eerie silence hinted that the strike was failing...
...When Rubens so admired the Betrayal that he asked Van Dyck to make a larger version, Van Dyck repositioned Malchus and remolded Judas' cloak. The results so pleased Philip IV of Spain that, after Rubens' death, he purchased the version, which today hangs in Madrid's Prado Museum...
Recalling Fogg Museum Mentor Paul Sachs's advice always to put quality first ("Buy the Czernin Vermeer"), Director Cunningham said with justifiable pride: "As far as I'm concerned, they're all Czernin Vermeers*-the Ribera would hang very comfortably in the Prado, and so would the Zurbar...