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...Official Returns. Consternation seized green Miraflores Palace, the seat of the government. Junta Boss Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez used the confusion to shuck off the other two members of the junta, Colonel Luis Felipe Llovera Páez, Minister of Interior, and Germán Suarez Flamerich, the mousy professor whom the colonels had propped up as President. After two days, Pérez Jiménez got the signed support of Chief of Staff Felix Moreno, and went on the air to declare himself President. He announced baldly that "correct" election returns gave the government...
...strange animal that Explorer Vicente Yañez Pinzón brought home from the new world in 1500 astonished the Spanish court. Their Majesties Ferdinand and Isabella ran their royal fingers through the soft-furred pouch on the beast's belly and marveled at such a freak of nature. In that age of exaggerations, the little cat-sized creature grew into weird shapes in the minds of men. To the Venetian court reporter, Peter Martyr, it looked like a "monstrous beaste with a snowte lyke a foxe, a tayle lyke a marmasette, eares lyke a batte, handes lyke...
...bomb from dynamite and steel pipe when the weapon, set off unintentionally, killed both. At Columbus Day ceremonies next day, someone tossed a bomb, hidden in a bouquet, at members of the junta: Lieut. Colonels Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez and their civilian satellite, President Germán Suárez Flamerich. Military policemen quickly scooped up the bomb, but it was a dud anyway. Twenty-four hours later, Llovera Páez broadcast that the junta had "crushed" a countrywide uprising, with gunfights in 16 towns...
...most audacious opponent of Franco inside Spain, Luisa María Narváez y Macías, fifth Duchess of Valencia, was restless in the quiet of her ancestral palace at Avila. But she had promised, after her third sojourn in Franco's jails, to withdraw from active politics for a while. So she rode horseback, drove her sleek Cadillac with the ducal crest on it, ran a charity kitchen in a wing of her palace, and wrote her memoirs. There was plenty to write about, including her expulsion, at the age of ten, from a convent...
...paper's reception room, the group was met by Manuel Constenla, La Prensa's business manager, and Dr. Manuel Ordóñez, its chief counsel. A police official ordered the building cleared and posted guards at the entrances. An editorial employee reported to Editor José Santos Gollan that a United Press messenger carrying cable dispatches had been refused permission to enter. Said Gollan softly: "Send the cables back. We are no longer giving orders here...