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...Bishop Rafael Alvarez Lara agreed to give the idea a trial in his See of Guadix, and Brothers Hilarion and Bernardo went to work. In the cemetery's dilapidated tool shed, they arranged two small cells and a tiny kitchen. All day long, they labor in the graveyard, clearing paths, repairing crumbling headstones, replacing rusty iron crosses and digging graves, an average of one a day. Each day they rise at 2 a.m. to walk in meditation through the cemetery to the tiny chapel, where they pray until...
...reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle, Bernice Freeman, 48, in her spare time once edited a weekly in nearby San Rafael. On her staff was an amiable cub reporter named George Boles. "George didn't turn out to be a very good reporter," she recalls, "but he had a flair for excitement and wrote the most marvelous stories. Only we couldn't print them-libel, you know." So his career as a reporter was short. When Bernice Freeman gave up the weekly job and began devoting all her time to the Chronicle, George fell into the habit...
Captain Austin J. King of San Rafael, Calif, banked his heavy-bellied C46 over Seoul airport one night this week, pushed the stick forward and prepared to land. Suddenly the pilot noticed that the plane's hydraulic system was out of order, and that one of the landing wheels was stuck in its casing. King pried open the trap door in the floor of his cockpit, wriggled into the narrow passage in the wing of his aircraft and tried to lower the wheel by hand. For 90 minutes he wrestled in the darkness of the wing while his copilot...
...years ago, in this space, I first introduced you to Rafael Delgado Lozano, the ubiquitous man of all work in TIME'S Mexico City news bureau, and described something of the life he leads there. TIME and Delgado met one spring morning on the Laredo Highway back in 1938. He was taking idle roadside bets as to whether the next U.S. automobile coming down the road would have crumpled fenders (about 50% of the cars showed signs of having smacked jaywalking cattle somewhere along the highway...
...Lambert. ROME: Robert Neville, Lester Bernstein, William Rospigliosi, John Luter. MADRID: Piero Saporiti. JOHANNESBURG: Alexander Campbell. BEIRUT: James Bell, David Richardson. NEW DELHI: James Burke, Joe David Brown, Achal Rangaswami. SINGAPORE: John Dowling. HONG KONG: John M. Mecklin. TOKYO: Dwight Martin, James L. Greenfield. MEXICO CITY: Robert Lubar, Rafael Delgado Lozano. PANAMA: Philip Payne. Rio DE JANEIRO: Cranston Jones. BUENOS AIRES: Ramelle MaCoy...