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...Boca del Rio air force base, 40 miles west of Caracas, two officers tried to induce the rest to rebel. Failing, one fled and the other surrendered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Spate of Insurrections | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...want people to know you still tie a bag on now and again these days when you have gone cosmic and claim to know all the answers . . . Keep them guessing, Pegler. Don't groove your stuff so that they can figure you for unions Monday. La Boca* Tuesday, civil rights Wednesday, and your message to mankind Thursday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Master Stylist | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...treasure had been found on Snell Isle, Timesmen began to tot up the results of their promotion stunt: six people were injured in auto accidents; several women fainted in the mob scene at the Times building; one woman, pacing off the clue in the dark, walked out into Boca Ciega Bay and had to be pulled out; four people had to be dragged out of waist-deep mud; the crowd ripped up stakes on a building site, which will now have to be resurveyed. But the Times seemed to think it was all worth it; Fourth of July circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Treasure Hunt | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...family, Rentschler relaxes-like an engine idling. He usually takes a Martini or two before dinner, and may sip champagne afterward. With both daughters married, he and his slender, attractive wife Faye live pretty much by themselves. Winters they spend in their Spanish villa near Florida's Boca Raton Club, where Rentschler plays tennis well enough to take on ex-Wimbledon Champion Fred Perry. He travels back & forth to East Hartford-as well as everywhere else-by plane. Even in the roughest weather, Rentschler merely grunts to his pilot, "Getting a bit dusty outside," then resumes reading memos about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Mr. Horsepower | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...Assistant Secretary of State, he has scored many a point with sympathetic words and by deft handling of sensitive Latin Americans. Last week Miller peeled off his velvet gloves in a blunt address to U.S. coffeemen and Brazilian guests at the National Coffee Association's convention in Boca Raton, Fla. Miller's message: the U.S. expects Latin America to share in the world struggle against Communist imperialism by adjusting its economy to the realities of the U.S. war-production program. The Latin countries' first tasks, he said, would be to tighten their belts, prepare for rationing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belt-Tightening | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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