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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Eddie's niece, Catherine, whom he has raised with over-protective care. When Rudolpho, who enjoys singing, sewing, and cooking, as well as working on the piers, is accused by Eddie of being a homosexual seeking to marry only for his citizenship papers, the tensions, conflicts, and jealousies begin to mount until they work themselves to their fateful climax. Towards the end of the play, it is said of Eddie that he is pure--not purely good, but at a time when men must settle for half, he allows himself to be wholly known. It is to Mr. Lurtsema...
...Russians do not want a major war at this time, but there is always the possibility that a series of steps (a Russian action, a U.S. counteraction, etc.) could lead even to all-out war. Although the West would not begin a conflict, it must still be prepared to make quick decisions on the use of nuclear weapons. But such decisions have to be made on a day-to-day basis, and concern about such momentous problems sometimes makes it hard for a President to sleep well at night. Even so, the crisis so far is no worse than...
Some 350,000 landless peasant families will be entitled to small plots of land and liberal government credit for equipment, seeds and fertilizer. The government will begin by parceling out its own vast holdings, most of it uncleared jungle, and will tax untilled estates so heavily that owners will be encouraged to sell. As a last resort the government will expropriate, but estates under proper cultivation will not be taken over, no matter what their size. "The law is neither leftist nor rightist," says Agriculture Minister Victor Jimenez Landinez. "It is simply just...
...land reform is the first real attempt in ten years to spend some of Venezuela's $800 million a year in oil revenues to develop the backlands. Thousands of farmers who have fled from-rural poverty to the city slums may now begin to drift back to the farm. The plan will cost $240 million the first year, $7 billion in all. Only the Communists denounced the plan as too moderate and refused to sign the commission's report. The other parties agreed with Caracas Archbishop Rafael Arias Blanco, who declared that passage of the bill "will...
...Seconds to Hell is rarely caught with its suspense down. There are the sepulchral groans and squeaks as the rusty nose-bolts on the bombs begin to turn. There are the sweat-beaded pauses when the demolition man draws the cables taut as delicately as if he were landing a poorly hooked fish. There is the drawn-out moment when a seemingly defused bomb reveals a second fuse and blows a man to bits. And through it all, Director Aldrich deploys his camera like a melancholy tourist over the desolate Berlin ruins. As drama, Ten Seconds is something...