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...things that saved James was sports," says his sixth-grade teacher John Tavella. The youth played point guard on the Bassick High School team, which ranked eighth in the U.S. during James' sophomore year. Basketball gave him the kind of attention that all youngsters crave. It also gave him something constructive to do with his time...
...athletic prowess alone didn't keep James on the right track. Relatives, friends and others took the time to show interest in him. "Mr. Tavella didn't just teach and let you go home," he says of his former teacher. "He talked to you. He knew things was going on out here. He was advising me not to be out there doing them...
Outstanding figures were Argentina's President Ramón S. Castillo; Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz-Guiñazú; onetime Argentine Ambassador to Spain Daniel Garcia Mansilla (the presiding dignitary); the Most Rev. Roberto José Tavella, Archbishop of Salta; and Spanish Ambassador to Argentina, Admiral Antonio Magaz y Pers, Marquis of Magaz. They convened as the first Congress of Hispano-American Culture...
Said Archbishop Tavella (showing the influence of Mussolini and Franco): "It is necessary to restore Spain and Hispanidad in America. . . . We've fallen into a state of intoxication and impotence but thank God this is disappearing; the course of liberalism is wavering; clarity of vision and sense of the true course is returning...
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