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...GLORY: SIMÓN BOLÍVAR-Thomas Rourke-Morrow...
...millions of South Americans the greatest man who ever lived was Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacio, liberator of Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Panama. Simón Bolívar (pronounced See-moan Bow-lee-var) has inspired litanies like those to the saints. His tomb at Caracas-the "Pantheon"-is almost as much a religious as a national shrine. Venezuela's President Contreras reputedly goes there to pray...
North Americans not only do not share this hero-worship, they probably know less about Bolívar than about any national hero in history. Such ignorance, thinks capable Biographer Rourke (Gómez: Tyrant of the Andes), is a gauge of "a century of misunderstandings and suspicions between the two Americas." A knowledge of Bolívar, he believes, would go far to explain South Americans' history and temperament, particularly their tendency toward dictatorship. For it was that tendency which set Bolívar's main problems, finally wrecked his great dream of a pan-American union...
...five-inch lamp, no bigger than a clinical thermometer, gives a maximum of 80,000 candlepower. A lamp of this length requires 8,000 volts (1,600 volts for each inch) but the current is only 1.5 amperes. Physicist Bol believes his little tubes will be useful for lighting airports, cinema projection, treatment of skin diseases. He has leased manufacturing rights to General Electric Co. and Philips Glow Lamp Co. of Holland, declared last week that two motion picture companies had approached him with offers. Cost figures were concealed last week but a Bol intimate said they were "ridiculously...
...Cornells Bol talks wittily in his imperfect English, likes sloppy, comfortable clothes, has a plump wife and five chubby sons for whom he keeps a horse and a ponycart. Born in Holland 52 years ago, he came to the U. S. in 1907 to study at Princeton, Stanford, the University of Montana, returned in 1916 to his native land where he worked on the development of sodium vapor lamps in the Philips laboratories and devised a way of sealing chrome steel to glass in X-ray apparatus. Last autumn he again bobbed up at Stanford as a research assistant. "Europe...