Word: bal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Presidential elections in Venezuela are almost a year away, but the campaign drums are already beating wildly for one unannounced candidate: Vice Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, 50, a leftist maverick who bossed the military junta that ruled for ten months after the 1958 ouster of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. Openly supported by the Communists, the darkly handsome Larrazábal ran a close race with President Rómulo Betancourt in the elections that followed, and then was sent into semi-exile as Venezuela's Ambassador to Chile. Last week Larrazábal returned...
...when Larrazábal's Air France 707 arrived, an uncontrollable mob of thousands overflowed the airport chanting "Viva Larrazábal" and "Down with Betancourt." In the crowd was TIME Correspondent Moisés Garcia, who was invited to ride with Larrazábal on the triumphant trip into Caracas. In the crush, Larrazábal's aides pulled Garcia in through a rear window while two Venezuelan National Guardsmen yanked on his legs to keep him out. Garcia was an eyewitness to the enthusiasm...
...barely edged through the screaming, cheering mob. Larrazábal kept nervously combing his hair and murmuring "My God! My God!" The car's clutch was burning, and the party, Garcia included, had to be transferred to another car for the trip into Caracas, where 3,000 viva-shouting greeters waited...
Stowaway in the Sky will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its bal-loonist's-eye view of the fair land of France...
YVONNE COREY Bal Harbour...