Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exhibits A & B. In Pueblo, Colo., Manuel Martinez, convicted a year ago on a paternity charge, sought and got a retrial, was found guilty again when the plaintiff's attorney displayed the baby and its webbed toes, then forced Martinez to remove his shoes and socks, show the jury his webbed toes...
...Scouts found a cave with seven human skulls covered with bat guano. Just to be safe, they told both the sheriff and the archaeologists. The skulls proved to be intermediate between crime and science: a few hundred years old. José Abeyta, head of the council of San Juan Pueblo, turned up a Spanish helmet from the days of the early conquerors...
Citizens of El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula have long since agreed on shortening their city's name to Los Angeles, but they could never agree on how to pronounce it. Last week a seven-man jury headed by Calvin Smith, president of the Southern California Broadcasters' Association, sat down with Mayor Fletcher Bowron to have a try at settling the matter. After due consideration, the jury and mayor plumped for the soft "g." From now on, if their decision is respected, it will be "Loss An-ju-less...
George was not the only one to feel the blow. As soon as the news broke, the people of Pueblo decided to do something for him. The P.T.A. first suggested the idea; then the student council at George's school made the same suggestion. Soon, the whole town was behind...
Last week a group of distinguished Pueblo citizens gathered by an empty lot on the edge of town. A few minutes later, George appeared, and School Superintendent Ernest M. Hanson began to speak. "You have been a father to hundreds of boys & girls," said he, "at a time when a little personal attention meant more than ' medical aid . . . This honor is in recognition of the importance of the position of custodian in the great process of education." Then he handed George a spade to break ground for the town's $375,000 new-school building. The name...