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Despite their modest achievements, most of the conferees viewed the result as a good start toward stabilizing copper's violent price swings, which chiefly reward speculators. "From now on we will have harmony in our policies," beamed Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian Foreign Secretary General. "This conference," added Zambian Foreign Minister Simon Kapwepwe, "should be a lesson to all underdeveloped countries. Those who grow sugar and coffee should start coming together...
...World War II, a scandalous, enigmatic fictional scamp named Pito Perez suddenly loomed on the Mexican literary landscape. He was modeled after a real-life picaresque oddball named Jesús Pérez Gaona, and was immediately hailed as a personification of the national character. Bloody, absurd, splendid, his story seemed to mirror Mexico. The Futile Life of Pito Perez -his equivalent U.S. name would be something like Penny Whistle Jones-was not so much an instant bestseller as an immediate national classic. Its author, José Rubén Romero, became a figure of renown* But strangely, until...
Divorced. By Dina Merrill, 41, sometime actress (The Young Savages) and daughter of Post Toasties Heiress Marjorie Post May: Colgate Heir Stanley M. Rumbough Jr., 46; on grounds of incompatibility; after 20 years of marriage, three children; in Juárez, Mexico...
...Parseghian hadn't recognized the ability of Terry Hanratty and Jim Seymour, he would have had to be the most myopic football coach between Juárez and Sault Sainte Marie. By the time they were seniors in high school, they were two of the hottest young prospects in the U.S. Both were all-conference, all-state (Terry in Pennsylvania, Jim in Michigan) and All-America. And both got scholarship feelers from more than 40 colleges...
...sentenced to death by a Mexican court. The crime for which he was condemned to face a firing squad occurred on the night of Oct. 12, 1959, after Simmons entered Mexico from Laredo, Texas, about 45 minutes behind a Monterrey dentist named Raúl Pérez Villagómez. Roughly 43 miles south of Laredo, the dentist's car broke down. Leaving his younger brother and two sisters behind, Villagómez went for help. When he got back to his car, his brother and one sister were dead, riddled with .22-cal. bullets. Hilda Villag...