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Over & over, the men & women massed in the Caracas bull ring chanted "Caldera si, Gallegos no!" Venezuela's chief opposition party, the right-wing COPEI (Committee for Independent Electoral Political Organization), had at last found a candidate for the presidential election on Dec. 14. Against famed 63-year-old Novelist Romulo Gallegos, candidate of the ruling Acción Democrática, would be pitched young (31), burly (6 ft., 200 lbs.) Rafael Caldera, one of COPEI's founders...
Handsome, good-natured Rafael Caldera has been a teacher of sociology at the University of Caracas. When he was only 20, he helped draft Venezuela's labor code, still in force. He has lost none of his interest in labor; last year, on a visit to the U.S., he made a point of consulting C.I.O. leaders. Briefly, before going into opposition, he was attorney general in President Romulo Betancourt's revolutionary government...
Kilauea has been chosen for this model as a notable example of the Caldera type, in which eruption takes place through the welling up of molten lava. Mr. Curtis's model will be 12 by 8 feet in size, and on a scale of 1-1500, on which the figure of a human being would be about one-tenth of an inch in height...