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...months ago, the 2,000-tree lemon and orange grove of Gabriel Ramirez, near Valles, on the Pan American Highway, was a rich and blooming place. Last week, like most orchards in the lush, hot valley, Ramirez' trees were soot-black with the leaf-ravaging larvae of the mosca prieta (citrus black...
...tough Dominican Exile Miguel Angel Ramirez, who had led his ragtag Legion in the fighting that put Figueres in power just a year before, was bitter: "The ticos [Costa Ricans] have our guns now. They have no need for them now, so they've put them away in a damp cellar to corrode. That's the way they feel about...
Conant, who for many years rang the Memorial Church bells calling students to classes and church, died Wednesday after a protracted illness. He was custodian of the Paine Music Building during his employment and was a member of the Harvard Lodge of Masons. His wife, Mrs. Conclia Ramirez Conant, two sons and a daughter survive...
...Just down the hall from Perón's office, in the space recently vacated by the fallen Economic Czar Miguel Miranda, sat trim, cheerful Colonel Enrique P. González. A bitter and outspoken foe of Evita, he had been presidential secretary in the regime of Pedro Ramirez, who was overthrown by Perón in 1944 for planning to break relations with the Axis. González bore the brand-new title of Immigration Director, but few Argentines had to be told that his real job was to keep an eye on the President's office...
Dona Luisa Maria Narvaez y Macias, Perez de Guzman el Bueno y Ramirez de Arellano, Marquesa de Cartago, Condesa de Canada Alta, Vizcondesa Aliatar and Duquesa de Valencia, had just spent nine months in the clink. Last week she sat, lithe and beautiful, in the prisoner's dock, her astrakhan coat open wide to reveal the soft drape of a smart beige gown and a length of shapely leg. From time to time as the prosecutor read the indictment, her long, blood-red fingernails fondled a corsage of tea roses at her shoulder as she cast a slow smile...