Word: sepulveda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odds against giving birth to twins are 80 to 1, against triplets 6,400 to 1, against quadruplets 512,000 to 1 and against quintuplets 40,960,000 to 1. Last week in Mexico City, Mrs. Maria Teresa López de Sepulveda, 21, wife of a social security clerk and mother of a two-year-old son, produced the 20,971,520,000,000-to-l chance: octuplets, four boys and four girls. The babies, weighing about 19½ oz. each, were two months premature, and all died within hours. It was only the third time in this century...
...students at Mexico City's National University cared for Dean Cesar Sepulveda's ideas. Not only did he demand regular class attendance but he also required students to take examinations. And he even had the temerity two months ago to suspend two students who made failing grades. Basta! The 7,000 law students went on strike. Last week the strike exploded into a full-scale riot...
...over the university's radio station, while others seized major buildings on the architecturally famed campus. When night fell, a group of students broke into the rector's office, forced Dr. Chavez to scribble a letter of resignation by lamplight. Thirty-five other faculty members, including Dean Sepulveda, resigned with...
...Insiders' work ranges from the violent canvases of Leonel Gongora, 30, to the near fantasies of Emilio Ortiz, 28, to the fleshy, bulbous creatures of Artemio Sepulveda, 27, to Francisco Corzas' fascination with hallucinations as "universal themes." Throughout the work, the palette is muted; Francisco Icaza, 32, argues that "reducing color makes form clearer." The results are uneven, occasionally repellent; but there is always a stark force about the Insiders that reaches out to the heart as well as the eye. Jose Mufioz, who at 34 is senior member of the group, explains his own anguished figures with...
...from 100 to 250 units a day. In Cincinnati, the Bendix Corp. reported a 1.000% increase in orders for its "Family Radiation Kits"-fallout-detection devices. In California's San Fernando Valley, Joseph Nathanson, a Los Angeles public relations man, gravely watched a flatbed trailer truck thunder down Sepulveda Boulevard carrying a giant, tar-coated concrete cylinder with apertures for vent pipes and doors. "It gives you a jolt, seeing that shelter going down the road," he said. "A year ago I'd have snickered...