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...third of whose population speaks Spanish. Democrat Chavez pushed aid through Congress - $1 billion this year alone - to rechannel the Rio Grande and, among other things, to bring water from the Colorado River to create new Navajo farm land. To his responsive voters, Chavez always could say: "Soy uno de ustedes," meaning...
...widespread criticism that the prize in recent years has often gone to authors little known outside their own lands. No such charge could be leveled against John Steinbeck, whose books have been translated into 33 foreign languages. Just possibly he reads better in some of them, but Dr. Uno Willers. secretary of the Nobel committee, admitted that criticism of the award had been even heavier this year than usual. Steinbeck himself, when asked if he thought he deserved the award, shrugged: "Frankly...
Recovering in European hospitals after dire prognoses: Spain's Matador Número Uno Antonio Ordóñez, 29, who stumbled over his muleta at Malaga to receive his almost annual goring (a 6-in., 14-stitch groin wound), but, following a one-hour surgical mano a mano with death, was expected to return to the ring by month's end; and West Germany's pugnacious pacifist, Evangelical Church Pastor (and World War I U-boat Skipper) Martin Niemoller, 69, who, while vacationing in Denmark, suffered near fatal injuries in an auto crackup that killed...
...costumes. Leading Drottningholm's orchestra with crackling vitality in last week's II Maestro and II Barbiere, Conductor Bertil Bokstedt was resplendent in the silk robe of an 18th century courtier. Onstage, Sweden's gifted young singers-Soprano Karin Langebo, Tenors Carl-Axel Hallgren, Arne Ohlson, Uno Stjernquist, and Basso Arne Tyren-wore the periwigs fashionable at the time of Queen Lovisa...
...meeting of I.N.R.A. officials last October that he had no intention of giving plots of land to peasants, planned to keep it instead in state-run cooperative farms. Artime also said he was sick of hearing "youth brigades" chanting their military drill cadence count outside his window every evening:" Uno-dos-tres-cuatro- viva-Fidel-Castro...