Word: betancourts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enhanced by Bill Cosby's performance as host, the hour-long Children's Theater special concentrated on segments of the film shot by ten fledgling cameramen, aged 5½ to 12. In the best sequence, Eddie Betancourt, the 12-year-old son of a farm worker, created a haunting atmosphere by juxtaposing scenes of living and dead birds encountered on his photographic tour. Christopher Merry, a disarming six-year-old from Los Angeles, used both his own drawings and shots of lush foliage to make a delightful film about an imaginary island he would some day like...
Married. Rómulo Betancourt, 60, former President of Venezuela (1959-64) and still its most powerful politician; and Child Psychologist Renee Hartman Viso, 44, his longtime friend; both for the second time; in Bern, Switzerland...
Venezuela's former President Rómulo Betancourt, 59, flew home from Europe for the first time in four years to try to patch up his splintered Acción Democrática party. The visit was a brief one, though, for there was another party back in Switzerland awaiting Betancourt's ministrations. That would be Renee Hartman Viso, 44, soon to become his wife. Betancourt disclosed that he had divorced his first wife, Costa Rican-born Carmen Valverde, to be free to marry Renee. But his absence during the long divorce proceedings, some Venezuelans believe, may cost...
Last year Adial E. Stevenson received honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Two other statesmen, Romulo Betancourt, former president of Venezuala, and Galo Lasso, former president of Ecuador, also received honorary...
Holy Pictures. THE PEOPLE ASK THE WALL, headlined the newspaper Juventud Rebelde. Employees at Havana's airport demanded that the execution be carried out there, and the purser of the hijacked plane asked to be a member of the firing squad. Betancourt will almost certainly be executed, and his accomplices sent to jail for long terms, at best. As for the two priests, they may escape with exile-after Castro has milked dry their participation in the plot. The government put great emphasis on the role of the priests and the church in Betancourt's escape, and newspapers...