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...befits a nation ruled through most of its 130 years by dictators, the transition was made with the aid of a crutch: a pre-election agreement among the major parties that whichever won would take the others into coalition government. At last week's celebration, televised from Caracas' White Palace, Betancourt, founding father of the Acción Democrática (A.D.), explained that "traditionally in Venezuelan politics the winners on reaching power enjoyed all rights and advantages, while the vanquished were left with only that curious form of political privilege known in Latin America...
...hedge 50 ft. away. Principal Doty lay injured on the ground, and 17 children, strewn near by, screamed in pain. A little boy writhed naked, his foot nearly blown off. "That mean old man!" he sobbed. "That mean old man! Will somebody get him? Will I need a crutch for my foot? Why did he have...
Wind v. Gas. Such frivolities are often viewed with mixed feelings by the half a million or so sailboaters in the U.S., who pride themselves on skillful ability to match wits with wind, tides and currents, without the crutch of a gasoline engine. To many of them, powerboatmen are simply "stinkpotters." who think there is nothing more to know about seamanship than how to push a starter button and steer. They in turn suffer the derisive snort of "rag-haulers." The schism runs deep. After all, say the rag-haulers, we were here first...
...American economy and a great deal of concern over the problem of bigness." On the other hand, he does not believe that the closed or union shop or opposition to the right-to-work laws "serves the interests of the unions in the long, long run," calls them "a crutch...
Amahl and the Night Visitors (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Gian Carlo Menotti's opera about the lame shepherd boy who pledges his crutch to the infant Jesus has been a yearly joy since 1951 and may well be one in 2051; with Kirk Jordan as Amahl, Rosemary Kuhlman as his mother...