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Victor suffered from bleeding ulcers and all the best doctors, that modern medicine produced, could not heal him. His assistant pleaded with him to visit a curandero. He was skeptical at first, but after a visit to Don Joaquin he realized that this type of healing could be the answer to his problem....

In The United Methodist Church how do we go forward instead of doing the same old thing? Do we go forward and live, or do we do nothing--and die? New structure, four areas of focus, guaranteed appointments, a new retirement program, new judicial council members, elimination of commissioning:...

RELATIONSHIPS — of the romantic kind. VERY few things have an impact on our lives and our well being greater than those involving romantic relationships. Even though a plethora of books have been written on the subject, by experts of varying degrees, venturing into the relationship venue can be...

In 1872 Chicago was just recovering from the awful tragedy caused by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, i.e. a conflagration that burned from October 8-10, 1871. Steam engines, antiques by modern standards, were sorely tested in controlling fires that often burned uncontrolled for hours and days. The...

Gladys Cooper was among the most popular Edwardian actresses in England. In 1907 she toured with the Hicks' company in "Bluebell In Fairyland". Very significant was Cooper's appearance as Bette Davis' dominating mother in the 1941 classic film, "Now,Voyager". Now, Voyager is considered...

Cliff Allison was a talented race car driver from northern England. His career was cut extremely short by two devastating injuries at Monaco (1960) and Spa-Francorchamps (1961). The severity of his wounds end his tenure as a driver in 1961. Allison nearly scored Lotus' first Formula 1 triumph...

Peter Arundell was a very versatile race driver whose Formula One career was cut short by an accident he sustained in France in 1964. Arundell debuted as a Formula One driver in 1963 a year after he won the Formula Junior title. The Ilwich native returned to Formula One in 1966 for eleven races. Peter...

Mike Parkes was an engineer before he became a driver for Ferrari in the 1960s. He was drafted by Enzo Ferrari to drive the Maranello, Italy's F1 cars in midseason of '66. Of his 7 grand prix starts Parkes qualified his Ferrari on the front row along with teammate Lorenzo Bandini for the...

Luigi Musso was the son of an Italian diplomat who gained fame as a Formula 1 racer, first for Maserati and then Ferrari. He began racing in an outmoded Giannini which he entered in sports car races in Italy. By 1955 Musso was the top driver for the Maserati Grand Prix team. He changed to Ferrari...

Umberto Maglioli competed in the most noteworthy sports car races beginning in the 1950s and concluding in 1967. It was after he won the world's oldest sports car race, the Targa Florio, that he was recruited to race for Scuderia Ferrari. He also raced in the Pan American Road Race in Mexico...

Willy Mairesse was a Belgian Formula 1 and Sports Car driver with a penchant for wrecking his Ferraris. So much so that his death by suicide in 1969 was attributed to a severe wreck he had at Le Mans in the Mulsanne Straight in 1968. Mairesse drove in races with friends before making the big time...

Jose Froilan Gonzalez was eleven years younger than his more famous countryman, Juan Manuel Fangio. Both were Formula 1 and sports car drivers in the heyday of Formula 1 racing, the 1950s. Fangio and Gonzalez each profited from the dictatorial regime of Argentine strongman Juan Peron. In fact Fangio...

On February 12, 1963 a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 720B commercial airliner crashed deep in the Florida Everglades. The plane was a Boeing model slightly smaller than the 707. The 720B was most often used for short trips. More than 100 of them were in use in 1963. At takeoff the aircraft flew...

The KLM Constellation that crashed on approach to Santa Cruz Airport in Bombay, India killed all 45 persons on board. Among them were 13 American journalists, two of them Pulitzer Prize winners. They worked for Time, Scripps-Howard, Business Week and many more newspapers and publications. The flight...