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Strike That Failed. Lima's spunky señoras were lonely voices in Peru last week. Bitter anger may boil beneath the surface, but most Peruvians were taking care not to step on the boots of their country's new rulers. In its first days, the gold-braided military junta that overthrew President Manuel Prado two weeks ago firmly consolidated itself in power, and did it with comparative ease. However much Peruvians might resent the suspension of their constitutional processes, they seemed unwilling to risk bloodshed or civil war over...
...grim, drawn President Prado sat surrounded by his ministers and friends. A door banged open, and in clumped eight tommy-gun-toting men of Peru's elite, U.S.-trained Ranger battalion. "Señor Presidente," announced the colonel at their head, "I have been sent to take you prisoner." Replied Prado: "So be it. I leave under force from a sector of the armed forces." Standing near by, Pedro Beltrán, until recently Prado's Prime Minister and a man who had done much to foster democracy and development in Peru, could not hide his emotion. "Well...
...doing an altar of St Thérèse de Lisieux, my favorite saint, and I needed a model for the angel in one of the panels. Jack, with his curly hair and his youthful serenity of expression, was literally God-sent." So said Sculptress Irena Wiley of John F. Kennedy, who at the time in 1939 was spending a week or so of his summer vacation from Harvard visiting the sculptress and her diplomat husband in Europe. Carving the wooden altarpiece for a Belgian church, Mrs. Wiley portrayed the future U.S. President as a guardian angel hovering over...
...start with a healthy heart," said Boston's Dr. Paul Dudley White, 76, elder statesman of cardiology, "physical labor or exercise apparently helps to keep it healthy. There is no evidence, that mental work per se causes heart disease, although in excess it may lead to neglect of proper health habits, and thus perhaps favor the early development of heart disease. The best antidote for the harmful effects of intensive mental work is vigorous physical labor or exercise...
Chosen after a five-month search by Lone Star's board, Wilson is chipped from the same block as Gene Germany. Born in the Louisiana oilfields, Wilson got a law degree at Tulane. taught oil and gas law there until he was lured away to run a se ries of small oil companies. An avid collector of hunting rifles, Wilson relaxes by taking potshots at Texas' innumerable jack rabbits. "He must shoot thousands of them every year," says a friend. "He does it to keep his eye in practice...