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...Little Spanish Town. It has reached this state of supercharged development through a process as astonishing as a Cecil B. DeMille production. Los Angeles began life in 1781 as the Spanish pueblo of Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciúncula -a comatose village of 44 souls, surrounded by arid plains and arid mountains. It dozed for a century, hardly opening an eye when four square Spanish leagues of its dusty ground was incorporated into a U.S. city...
...Virgilio Filippo (TIME, Feb. 16) organized nationalists for Peron in the 1946 elections, Father Dunphy worked and preached against what he called the nationalists' "unChristian" intolerance and lawlessness. For two years thereafter he stuck close to his own parish, occasionally writing letters to such Catholic newspapers as El Pueblo, or Cordoba's Los Principios...
...speech last September threatening to hang his enemies that brought Father Dunphy back into action. He chided the President from his pulpit. "It is not Christian," he wrote to El Pueblo, "for those in high places to foment or incite to civil war. Nor is it Christian to elevate hatred to the extreme of wanting to annihilate those who hold differing opinions...
Just Desserts? In Pueblo, Mr. & Mrs. Jack Halstead complained that an old jape had reached Colorado: someone had carefully scrubbed their bathtub, then filled it with 30 gallons of cherry-flavored gelatin...
...jail to see his son. I was unshaven, dressed in rags, and I guess I managed to pass for a lower, class Paraguayan -although I narrowly missed becoming a permanent guest of the house when the guard asked me a question in Guaraní, the language of the Paraguayan pueblo. The old man spoke up for me and the guard, satisfied, admitted us into the unpaved courtyard crammed with prisoners. There was a big parade going on in another part of town, and I suppose the guards figured that no correspondent would pass up a good parade to look...