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...student riots and strikes. So concerned was Franco that during the past fortnight his ubiquitous secret police arrested more than a dozen men, mostly young, of good families which earlier supported the Caudillo. Among them were some big names: Millionaire Basque Businessman Antonio Menchaca Careaga, Lawyer Valentin López Aparicio, University Student Ignacio Soleto, nephew of Liberal Leader Dionisio Ridruejo (Franco's propaganda director during the civil war), and Francisco Herrera Oria, widely known liberal Catholic layman and younger brother of the liberal Bishop of Málaga...
Before he got off his fifth shot, Gunman Rigoberto López Pérez, 27, was riddled by a deadly fusillade from presidential bodyguards. But he had hit Tacho four times...
...Sons Take Over. Gunman López Pérez was a slight, short, pencil-mustachioed Nicaraguan who had worked until lately as a salesman of phonograph records in neighboring El Salvador. He could never reveal his motive: witnesses counted 20 bullet holes in his body. But as an occasional contributor to local newspapers, he had left at least one clue that hinted at an obsession for martyrdom. In a piece of literary criticism written ten days before for the León Cronista, López Pérez said: "Immortality is the aim of life and of glorious...
Underwater Loudspeaker. A small watertight loudspeaker for divers and frogmen, which will transmit a human voice from 60 ft. to 100 ft. under water, was brought out by Italian Engineer Angelo Pez. Although the U.S. Navy already uses similar equipment with a greater voice range, Pez expects to find a ready consumers' market for his Vocesub...
...source of meat for the highly populated world of the future [May 28], recalls a description of the manatee, or sea cow, which the Spaniards apparently saw for the first time in the islands of the Caribbean Sea and noted by Francisco López de Gómara in 1552: "The flesh of the manatee tastes more like meat than like fish. When fresh it tastes like veal and when salted, like tunny, but is better and keeps well. The Indians often kill manatees as they pasture along the river banks, and when small they may be taken...