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Diego Rivera was in hot water again last week. His mural in Mexico City's Del Prado Hotel (TIME, Oct. 6) had suddenly become a national scandal. Someone had informed the Archbishop that the mural contained a portrait of Don Ignacio Ramirez (an anticlerical follower of Juarez) holding a placard with the words Dios no existe ("God does not exist"-see cut). Sadly, the Archbishop canceled a date to bless the just-completed hotel and went off to bless some jai alai courts instead...
...announced that Rivera had agreed to rub out the offending phrase and substitute another reading Negocio es negocio ("Business is business"). The painter hastily denied it. Hotel Director Luis Osio y Torres Rivas fumed that Rivera had promised, "on the word of a king," to put something different on Ramirez' placard, and then reneged on the grounds that he was, after all, "no king...
...masterminded the victory of Rebel leader José Figueres in Costa Rica's civil war. Most of them were Nicaraguan and Dominican exiles, and they were indifferent to the celebrations in the streets outside. They had business to do. Said soft-voiced Dominican Colonel Miguel A. Ramirez, who had been Figueres' chief of staff in the recent campaign: "This is only the beginning. There are other, harder projects ahead...
...Stop a Bus. In Havana, Maria Ramirez Artiles stood impatiently in the rain waiting for a bus, furiously watched two flit right by. The third bus stopped-after a window was smashed and a passenger beaned by indignant Maria's well-aimed rock...
...deputies (Trujillo holds signed resignation letters from all Dominican deputies) were put forward as their candidates. One, Rafael Espaillat, has spent the campaign digging in the garden of his little farm outside Ciudad Trujillo. The other, Francisco Plats Ramirez, recently signed a routine resolution of praise for the Benefactor. ("A typist's error," he explains.) Neither man has made a campaign speech...