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...hemispheric axiom has it that when a dictator falls afoul of Washington, his opponents are emboldened to try to topple him. This year, Trujillo is in bad grace with the U.S., which officially suspects that the Dominicans hired U.S. Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy to carry out the airplane-kidnaping of Trujillo Critic Jesús de Galindez from Manhattan 16 months ago. But to Trujillo's satisfaction, the axiom has not worked. The Dominicans are as docile as ever. The educated few who know of the Galindez-Murphy case (in some instances from Puerto Rican radio broadcasts) publicly refuse...
...grandson, reportedly wishes to adopt him herself. All for keeping the boy and wangling from Olga a settlement on him is Kim's mother, onetime famed U.S. Model Dorian Leigh, 36, jilted last year by the marquis (long estranged from U.S.-born wife) after he ran afoul of the charms of much-traveled Cinemactress Linda (The Happy Time) Christian...
...That's what this network needs-a little guts." Thus speaks a character in The Commentator, a TV script about a newscaster who runs afoul of his employers by editorializing. The network is a fictitious company called Amalgamated Broadcasting, but there are only three TV networks in the U.S., and perhaps it was unrealistic to expect any of them to broadcast such lines or dramatize such a situation. Last week CBS, which had canceled a broadcast by its own Analyst Eric Sevareid for editorializing (TIME, Feb. 25), canceled the scheduled performance of The Commentator on next week...
Last week brought further news of the kidnaped scientist. A party of Western scientists, recently returned from a scientific conference in Moscow, reported that Kapitsa, far from helping the Soviet H-bomb project, had run afoul of Dictator Stalin for refusing on moral grounds to devote himself to the development of thermonuclear weapons. For the last seven years of the Stalin regime, he had, in fact, been kept under house arrest. One of the first acts of the post-Stalin government had been to release the hostage scientist, give him a couple of chauffeur-driven cars and restore...
Some 30,000 Gold Coasters were waiting restlessly when he arrived. He made his apologies-"Man, I've been scoffing plenty with the P.M."-and started to play. Some fans dodged up to the bandstand and started to dance. One ran afoul of the cops, who roughed him up, leaving Louis depressed. "Man, that's why I left New Orleans. I don't like rough stuff...