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...backward nation, the Colombian President told a joint session of Congress, "can follow the Communist pattern in the hope that, after three or four generations of privation and bloodshed, the survivors may at last know and acquire some of the goods, services and facilities of a higher civilization. Or it can be guided by those principles and procedures through which you yourselves have come to be one of the richest, most fair-minded and happiest of nations...
Beltrán, Prado belongs to the aristocracy of 30 or 40 interlocking families that dominate Peru, yet he was elected by APRA on his promise, which he kept, of restoring the outlawed party's legality. APRA's advice to Prado was to develop Peru's backward land by deficit financing. Against his own preferences Prado acquiesced, and government presses cranked out endless paper sols to pay for the expansion. He was soon in deep economic trouble and under fire from Publisher Beltrán. Prado's answer was direct and logical: in a phone conversation...
...from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. with a Brazilian newsman and delivered a broadside of dictates. On democracy: "It never functioned in Latin America. Elections are a myth. The parliamentary system in Cuba reflected the old system, which we are now destroying. Elections now would be a step backward, with time and effort wasted in sterile discussions and theoretical considerations." On the economy: "Our aim is total direction...
...falls, it will pick up speed from the sun's gravitational field and will creep ahead of the earth. After a while, it will be moving fast enough to stop falling and to maintain itself in an eccentric solar orbit. The more backward speed the probe has when it clears the earth, the slower it will be moving around the sun and the farther it will fall toward the sun before it goes into a solar orbit. To fall all the way to Venus, whose orbit is 25 million miles inside the earth's, a probe would have...
Peter lunges for the bottle, despite the snake. He lurches over to the hotel window and begins his inane, compulsive ritual, shouting the names of the Derby winners in backward sequence at the passers-by far below: "Broker's Tip, Burgoo King, Twenty Grand, Gallant Fox ... Flying Ebony. Jump, Peter. Fly like Flying Ebony." Another snake, as big as his thigh, strikes at him. The bottle drops and shatters on the radiator. Sobbing "Leave me alone. No more. No more," Peter collapses across the hotel bed on the bare breast of the nymphomaniacal redhead with whom he is sharing...