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...year-old Maria and her grandmother were passing a bridge where three years before the body of Giuseppe Veraldi had been found, apparently a suicide. Maria stopped still, stared at the riverbank and fainted. When she regained consciousness, she spoke in a coarse, masculine voice. "I am Pepe," she said, and she began to drink wine and smoke cigarettes, play cards, and write in the handwriting of the dead Giuseppe Veraldi. She told how his friends had drugged his wine, thrown him over the bridge and beaten him to death with an iron pipe. Then she acted out the crime...
Greenough doubted that the public would look with favor on the suggestion to build parking lots on the riverbank, since the land was used extensively for recreational purposes and was given to the M.D.C. for that use. The commissioner felt that he was unable to "say yes or no" to the proposition, but felt that the commission itself would not favor the removal of that recreational property...
This feeling was echoed by Barry, who foresaw "unfavorable" public reaction if the plan should be adopted. Benjamin Fink, chief park engineer, thought that students themselves would complain if the riverbank were to be made into a parking lot, and considered the idea neither possible nor feasible...
Search planes spotted the body of one missionary not far from the wrecked and looted plane. During the next few days, as a ground crew worked its way to the scene, the searchers located the bodies of the other four. The land party reached the riverbank at week's end, found that four had died of spear wounds-and one of machete slashes. Around the shaft of one spear were wrapped a few pages torn from a Bible. The dead were identified, then buried where they lay. Ecuador's government sent sympathy and regrets to the U.S. ambassador...
...Roger Youderian, Nat Saint and I were in the center. From time to time we shouted words of Auca. Suddenly, we heard a loud masculine voice from the other side of the river, and three Aucas appeared. Two women and one man waved to us from the opposite riverbank . . . and thus occurred the contact for which we had prayed to God." The three Aucas went over to the camp, and the man even took a short plane ride. Wrote Saint: "We have a friendlier feeling for these fellows all the time...