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...sweeping the U.S.," he told an exuberant meeting of Young Democrats in Miami, "I thought that perhaps no one was going to show up. Artemus Ward once said, about 50 years ago, 'I am not a politician and my other habits are good also.' " Arriving in Bal Harbour, Fla., for the annual convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., he greeted Big Labor's leaders with a casual weather report: "It's warmer here than it was yesterday...
...other with deepening disdain. Meany thinks of Reuther as an energetic troublemaker. Reuther attributes many of organized labor's problems-such as declining membership and jurisdictional disputes between craft and industrial unions-to Meany's lackadaisical leadership of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Last week, at labor's Bal Harbour convention, the Meany-Reuther feud was a top conversational subject among the delegates...
...grew up in grinding poverty, a wiry, vicious brawler in his sugar-cane town of San Cristóbal. Opportunity arrived with the U.S. Marines, who landed in 1916 to watch over customs collections and bond payments, and who used Trujillo as an informer and procurer of obliging ladies. Trujillo's idol was a trigger-happy captain named C. F. Merkle, whose idea of order was shooting "troublemakers." Merkle was finally arrested, and committed suicide before he could be tried. But Trujillo went on to become boss of the Dominican armed forces, a position he used to make himself...
...vacuum there will be. After years of autocracy, the Dominican Republic was a stunned place. Thousands of Dominicans, many of them wailing hysterically, tried to jam into the tiny crypt of the church in San Cristóbal, where Trujillo's closed coffin was laid to rest. Ramfis ordered them out, then, with eyes blazing, vowed at his father's tomb to kill every one of the opposition. After the funeral, 1,000 suspected opponents of the regime were rounded up. Diaz' son was reported killed, and his wife held for torture; the government announced the death...
...tableaux vivants but moves among them like a circus clown with a bladder full of hot air. With the real pornographer, the sex circus is too solemn for comic treatment. Miller's tone at times suggests that a committee of longshoremen has taken over the management of a bal-musette. The words for the climaxes of love are not Lawrentian evocations of the impossible mysteries of sex but "paff! paff! After that it's paff, paff, paff!" Miller moves into the most preposterous bedrooms like a voyeur without curiosity-only with a hoarse guffaw and a derisive...