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...leisure he has rented a $450-a-month ranch house in the city of Leavenworth. The garage doors open automatically, and Ramfis disappears after classes behind shades that are always drawn. Outside, a six-man crew of private detectives watches the house and patrols nearby streets. Back home in Ciudad Trujillo, Dictator Rafael Trujillo Sr., last of Latin America's undisputed strongmen, could be reasonably certain that his heir was both safe and comfortable...
When Spain's Francisco Franco set out for hot, dry Ciudad Rodrigo last week to meet with Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, a rustle of speculation swept through Madrid. What, asked the wags, could bring the dictators out of their palaces in weather like this...
Under a molten summer sun, a portly figure in a Palm Beach suit set out from his seaside estate one morning last week for a constitutional along Ciudad Trujillo's palm-lined George Washington Avenue. Pedestrians were herded aside, but cars rolled by unmolested just a few yards away. Only a handful of aides guarded Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, 65, Benefactor of the Fatherland, Genius of Peace, etc., etc., etc., as he strolled confidently along. In the dictator's island fief, poincianas were blooming, sugar cane was growing, business was booming...
Divorced. Erich Maria Remarque, 58, German-born novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front, Arch of Triumph); by Else Jeanne Zamboni, 64; for the second time (they were first married in 1923, divorced in 1930, remarried in 1938); in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...transforming the land, the dams have also transformed the people, who are largely of Spanish stock, and their cities. Ciudad Obregón, in the heart of the Yaqui valley, has grown from a barren crossroads to a booming city of 70,000, with modern architecture, an up-to-date airport (with cotton planted between the runways) and a home-grown crop of millionaires. The small farmer-owners, grown suddenly prosperous, make good customers for the show windows filled with gleaming new appliances and U.S.-made farm machines. Los Mochis, the sugar-mill center of the Fuerte valley, is just...