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General Pinochet's call was followed by one from the navy commander, Admiral Jose Toribio Merino Castro, who repeated the ultimatum. "I will not surrender," Allende declared. "That is a course for cowards like yourself...
After Sunday Mass in their Peruvian village, Toribio Condori and his wife slipped off their shoes to walk home in comfort. On the way, Toribio cut his toe badly on a rock. While he howled, his wife told him how lucky he was. "If you had not taken them off," and she pointed to the shoes dangling over his arm, "you would have ruined them...
...Toribio and his wife, like others among the half of Peru's 4,000,000 Indians who have accepted the idea of foot covering, ordinarily wear cheap sandals made of llama skin or slabs of old tires. For reasons of poverty or prejudice, the Latin American Indian's sales resistance to anything better in shoes has been as tough as the calluses on his broad feet. Only one salesman ever dented it-and he was fictional, an O. Henry character (Mr. Hemstetter in Cabbages and Kings) who promptly sold out his stock after a clever schemer sprinkled...
Except for the President's palace, the most famous address in Chile was once 49 Doce de Febrero, Santiago. Here was the center of Chile's intellectual life, the home of a slight, courtly figure known as "Don J.T." Until his death in 1930, Jose Toribio Medina reigned as Chile's cultural grandee, dispensing advice and talk to all who came to see him. Scholars and celebrities flocked to him, and it was even a tradition for foreign diplomats to pay their respects soon after they arrived in town...
Some months ago the priest in Ixcateopan sent the National Museum a frayed and yellowed manuscript that had been brought to him by an Indian farmer whose family had preserved it through the centuries. It was signed by one of Cortes' companions, Padre Francisco Toribio de Benavente, whom the Indians had called Motolinia (the Poor Man), because of his strict asceticism...