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This summer the $40 million Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen) was thrown open to the public. It is built on a scale to rival the pyramids. On the rocky crest of one of the foothills of the snow-capped Guadarrama Range sits a sparkling, 5OO-ft., white...
To any challenge of violent opposition by bitter-end Peronistas, Aramburu has been harsh. A year ago, when Peronista General Juan Jose Valle, Aramburu's classmate at the Military Academy, led a shooting attempt at counterrevolution, the President, weeping, signed an order for Valle's execution by firing...
Telltale Greens. The Valle Pega, the most promising lagoon, was drained two years ago, but for a year it remained as barren as a beach at low tide. This spring the mud turned faintly green with plants. The plants indicated nothing until the reclamation agency had the area photographed from...
One of the two top plotters, General Juan José Valle, died in front of the rifles. The other, General Raul Tanco, escaped in disguise to asylum in the Haitian embassy. Pro-government vigilantes, waving machine guns, kidnaped him from his refuge and turned him over to the army for...
Izett Was a Scot. To help get the research done for her weekly deadlines, Mary Ellis Peltz relies on an ever-changing relay of would-be writers, young students who serve their operatic apprenticeship with her the way others serve in claques or work as spear bearers, then go on...