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Manhattan Contractor Samuel R. Rosoff takes business wherever he can find it. Last week, "Subway Sam" returned from a beaming visit with ruthless Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Sam, who had his eye on a dam job in the Dominican state of Santiago, babbled chummily about the Benefactor. "He is sometimes called a dictator, but he's not," gushed Sam. "He's the most democratic man. Why, he had me to dinner with him at his home...
...Finlay Currie), and a rich, decaying recluse, Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt).When Pip is still a very young man, he is snatched from poverty into Great Expectations. Miss Havisham's subtle attorney Jaggers (F. L. Sullivan) holds a fortune in trust for him, the gift of an anonymous benefactor. Pip sets out for London to learn to be a gentleman. He shares lodgings with a rickety, charming young man named Herbert Pocket (Alec Guinness),and learns, instead, to be a snob. As he helps his old criminal friend to escape arrest and rescues Miss Havisham's ward...
Navigation. In a tiny country 4½ air hours southeast of Miami, even as decisive a will as the Benefactor's must reckon with the U.S., and Trujillo has done it. He has built one of the Hemisphere's finest hotels in his capital to convince U.S. visitors that he "runs the country like a U.S. corporation." Many a tourist has gone away impressed. But U.S. hemispheric policy, which has tolerated Trujillo despite its icy hostility to dictators, is in a state of flux. When it takes more certain form, Trujillo may hear unpleasant tidings...
...Benefactor is not the lion who once surrounded himself with mistresses and caused 1,870 monuments to himself to be raised in his capital alone. Last week a onetime Canadian corvette, now called the Presidente Trujillo, lay in Ciudad Trujillo harbor; it was being fitted out with extra new cabins. Dominicans whispered that, elections over, the Benefactor would sail away for France and an operation for an old ailment...
...bench by the bay, the Benefactor, as usual, said nothing...