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...continued to Guatemala in December 1953. The country was then controlled by the Communists around President Jacobo Arbenz, and was a natural haven for Latin American leftists of all degrees. Che fitted right in. His closest friend was a plump, almond-eyed young Peruvian girl named Hilda Gadea, an ardent, exiled member of Apra, Peru's leftist revolutionary movement. Hilda lent Che money to pay his room rent, kept him fed. For a while he peddled encyclopedias, then got a minor job in Guatemala's agrarian-reform program...
...polite attention, never once interrupted him with applause. When Goldwater appeared later the same day to urge the committee to shun the "destructive idea that you can get something for nothing," the members greeted him with a cheering, shouting, whistling outburst, later interrupted his speech again and again with ardent clapping. "If we weren't concerned with winning," a high convention official said, "our sympathies would be almost unanimously with Goldwater...
...York?which has not seemed to attract his talents lately anyway?but he would be the No. 2 Republican and possibly the No. 2 U.S. statesman on the national scene, and, as the politicians' phrase has it be "one heartbeat away" from the presidency. But the secret creed of ardent Rockefeller partisans on convention eve seemed to be that Nixon without Rockefeller will lose in November, that Rockefeller will suffer no party penalties, will capture the G.O.P. for himself in 1961 and ride on triumphantly to nomination and victory over President Jack Kennedy...
...enough to have its own status symbols, some of the most popular of the artists turned up in Newport's Freebody Park for the city's second annual Folk Festival; others arrived in Berkeley, Calif, for a five-day festival that each day attracted 1,200 ardent fans...
...Harvard to study folk music, has since cut some 50 albums that have made him the hero of the col lege folk revival. Seeger's voice is twangy and his pitch uncertain, but he sings with unequaled verve and a kind of rough-hewn sense of conviction. An ardent leftwinger, he once sang many industrial songs, now is better known for Appalachian mountain songs (Pretty Polly) and Negro classics like I'm on My Way and Takes a Worried...