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...ROBERTO RENDUELES World Health Organization New York City
Just after noon one day last week, Roberto, as his teammates called him, rode his horse up the steep path to tiny (pop. 150) San Pedro del Alto. Ten yards behind followed his Mexican assistant, Raul Sanchez. About 40 yards farther back rode three soldiers (the only armed men in the party) and a guide. Topping the rise, Roberto rode slowly up to the church on the sunbaked, cactus-hedged plaza. As he was about to dismount, he suddenly cried to Sanchez: "Get out quick, go back...
Three hours later, Sanchez was carried into Toluca hospital. Government police fanned out over the hills looking for Proctor. Only after getting tough with the farmers were they led to a mountain grave. There they found the battered body of Roberto Proctor. He was the ninth official (and second American) to die at the hands of superstitious Mexican farmers fearful that anti-aftosa teams came to do them harm instead of good...
Italy's swarthy, balding Director Roberto Rossellini (Open City, Paisan), on his first visit to the U.S., was taking the fast pace of Hollywood in stride last week. The telephone in his double suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel was kept ringing by cinema celebrities eager to entertain him. The evening he arrived, he dined with Ingrid Bergman (he expects to sign her up for his next picture). The next night there was a small, stylish dinner given by Writer-Director Billy Wilder. One morning David O. Selznick called...
...Faces. Two little-known men, Dr. Roberto Antonio Ares, 35, and Dr. Alfredo Gomez Morales, 39, were made Secretaries of Economy and Finance, respectively. Unlike Miranda, both believed that the world market was a buyers' & sellers' market, not a sellers' market only. Miranda got the formal title of "technical assessor to the chief of state...