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...Adams. For his forthcoming book on Truman Capote, Associate Editor Gerald Clarke conducted 200 interviews with his subject's friends and foes. Two staffers have written biographies drawn upon their reporting experience at TIME. Correspondent Bernard Diederich's Death of the Goat, due this spring, is about Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Jerusalem Stringer Robert Slater has written a biography of Yitzhak Rabin, the former Israeli Premier. Says Slater: "When I told my little daughter that Rabin was also writing a book, she asked innocently. 'Oh, is he doing it about...
Recently the Union Juvenil Hispana of Cambridge Rindge Latin School sponsored a tund-raising dance at the Santo Cristo Club on Cambridge Street which featured a Dominican band, the Conjunto Imperio Latino, door prizes, and lots of dancing. Such events are much more than mere moneymakers...
...after the fire, final exams were canceled, and students packed their bags to head for home. The Dominican priests who run the college made plans to attend the dead students' funerals and visit the families of those who were injured. Fire officials sifted the debris for clues to the cause of the blaze. The most likely suspect: the gooseneck lamp that had illuminated the cardboard...
...winter league's opening day in the baseball-mad Dominican Republic. Yet 9,000 sweltering Dominicans chose instead to crowd into Santo Domingo's new Sports Palace for a different event: the windup of the "Festival of the Family," a series of revival meetings. As the high-spirited, hand-clapping throng fell silent, a handsome, wavy-haired spellbinder named Luis Palau took the microphones and thundered about an impending "climax of history." After more than an hour onstage, Palau appealed for commitments to Jesus Christ?and converts streamed onto the playing floor...
Palau's growing impact was demonstrated during the closing days of the Dominican crusade, when he flew to strife-torn Colombia to address a "Banquet of Hope" attended by 2,500 civic leaders. The principal guest, Colombia's President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, showered Palau with congratulations. He responded with a blunt plea for the Colombian elite to turn to God and foster a spiritual reawakening. The Colombians who arranged the banquet, Palau told TIME, think that "the only ideology that can stop Marxist-Leninism or the disintegration of our society is Evangelical Christianity...