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...HOUSE BY THE MEDLAR TREE (247 pp.) - Giovanni Verga - Grove Press...
Hondurans got the tipoff last month when Oppositionist Edmundo Pinto Mejia was arrested, then savagely beaten with the classic verga de toro (bull's pizzle). Newsmen hustling into Guatemala for safety last week reported a new "wave of terror"; Dictator Carías' jails were filling fast...
Phillip E. Shick, 17, of 1053 West Main street, Van Wert, O.; Van Wert High School; son of Verga R. Shick, city inspector; ranked first among the boys in his class and was local president of the class, captain of the state championship debating team, and winner of the annual Rotary Club of Louisville award...