Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...folks," Morgan says. He reaches back into American history and reels out examples of individuals who, he said, influenced historical currents. "If it hadn't been for John Brown, the Civil War wouldn't have come when it did. If it hadn't been for Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, there wouldn't have been a Southern Christian Leadership Conference...
Another Russian lady, Rosa Kuleshova, can "read" with her fingertips while securely blindfolded. James Randi, analyzing photographs of Kuleshova, promptly announced that her act was "a fraud." To prove his point, he invited testers to blindfold him with pizza dough, a mask and a hood. Then he proceeded to drive a car in traffic. "I won't tell you how I did it," he says. "But it was not parapsychologically. It was pure deception, just as hers was." Such revelations have not deterred the parapsychologists in the U.S.S.R. or elsewhere. They freely concede that many of their subjects do sometimes...
When José Flores drove on the wrong side of the road near Santa Rosa, Calif., and hit an oncoming car, one of the victims, Colenda Ward, 12, suffered irreversible brain damage. Flores, 23, was charged with manslaughter and felonious drunken driving. But there was a macabre technicality. After determining that Colenda had suffered cerebral death, doctors successfully transplanted her heart into a patient at the Stanford University Medical Center...
...right. His daughter, thin, bright-eyed Ofelia, comes out and tells you how she's going to go in the sixth grade in San Martin and then become a nurse. Her younger sisters, giggling wildly, hurl sombreros in the air and watch the wind take them. Her mother, Dona Rosa, invites you in for coffee and sweet breads that she bought from one of the two tiny stores and that Isac and his brother, bakers and sons of a baker, made one morning. Dona Rosa tells you of her fifteen-year-old son who went to live with an aunt...
Outside, the children are prepared with fresh flowers. They file up the road to the church, singing, four of them bearing the little coffin on a crude wooden frame. Inside, Don Efren plays a twangy banjo and Senora Gudelia and Senora Rosa sing an endless song in nasal harmony while two cousins perform a funereal ritual before the coffin. The other children play for their mothers' attention, or titter, or hold back their tears...