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Died. Leo Carrillo, 81, lighthearted Latin badman of Viva Villa, The Gay Desperado and a score of other Hollywood mellers, the land-rich scion of a long line of California Spanish dons (including an early Governor) who became an actor by choice, not necessity, was credited with persuading Fellow Vaudevillian Will Rogers to spice his previously silent lasso routine with Oklahoma patter; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Sister Mary Viva, principal of St. John Brebeuf School, knew that all the children lived in that parish. Three of the leukemia victims were attending the school when their illness began; four others were preschool tots with older brothers or sisters in the school; the eighth, though in public school, had friends in the parish school. Sister Mary reported her concern to the Illinois branch of the American Cancer Society, which notified Dr. Schwartz. Then Dr. Robert J. Hasterlik, of the Argonne Cancer Research Hospital, called in epidemiologists from the U.S. Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center...
...State House, the group was made up of Boston Cubans and members of YAF groups from local colleges. Parading before a generally favorable audience, the demonstrators carried such signs as "Cuba is a Red Satellite" and "Down With Castro," while singing the Cuban national anthem or shouting "Viva Kennedy...
...Viva Portugal! Viva Salazar!" roared the crowd of 80,000 jamming the dock area in Lisbon. Jet fighters of the Portuguese air force whined overhead, tugboats and pleasure craft blew their whistles as the 20,906-ton liner Santa Maria last week steamed majestically up the Tagus River, back in its home port and in Portuguese control after its twelve-day captivity by rebel Captain Henrique Galv...
...August 29, thousands of Venezuelans, demonstrating against the OAS decision, forced their government to give complete support to the Cuban revolution and Castro. In the capital of Ecuador, rioting workers and peasants, protesting against the slow and inefficient land reform program in their country, marched through the streets shouting, "Viva Cuba." In Argentines, even the "Congress of Christian Democratic Organizations" gave its support to the goals of the Cuban revolution...