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...archbishop starts the Mass, José points with a baton at Santa María de Guadalupe, and the bell begins tolling. One by one José brings in the other bells, not just the eight played on ordinary days, but special bells like San Pedro, San Antonio. Then he silences them, each in turn, until only Santo Angel de la Guarda, sweetest-toned of all, tolls softly, a sign that down below in the cathedral the sermon is being preached. At the Gloria, he swings up his arms and all 18 bells peal out. José, the bellringer, stands...
...sunny morning a little knot of white students gathered at the gas station across San Pedro Street from the school. Waving placards lettered "No Nigger Wanted," they hoisted two effigies to a lamppost, urged students to cut classes and join the picket line. Soon 600 of Fremont's 2,900 students were out on strike, 200 of them milling through San Pedro Street...
...when Dictator José Uriburu threatened to close La Prensa unless it stopped attacking him, the paper's tough old owner and publisher, Ezequiel Pedro Paz, told him that he would move the paper to Paris and keep up the fight from there. General Uriburu piped down. That was 16 years ago, and Don Ezequiel, paralyzed by a stroke in 1943, has never known that his paper was closed for five days in April 1944, for opposing the militarist Farrell regime...
...PEDRO LOPEZ...
...vastly expensive jobs like the Kaufmann house (cost $150,000), Neutra likes to try out ideas to use later in his low-cost projects such as his 600-house Channel Heights project in San Pedro, Calif. Says he: "I have . . . always felt that it was the job of ours and the next following generation to make true the promise of the [industrial] revolution . . . the promise of a general exodus from our metropolitan slums, from rural hovels and, in short, from the pre-industrial standards of living and housing. . . . Whatever we design today . . . has its true contemporary significance only...