Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good Feeling." Will Balaguer be able to keep the leftists under control when he takes office July 1? Most Dominicans are hopeful, and Balaguer himself seems determined to follow through on his campaign slogan of "revolution without blood." He promises land for peasants, lower prices, more jobs-and most of all, an end to fighting. "The Dominican people," he says, "need peace and a chance to live a good life." If the leftists do get out of hand, his country's 30,000-man military establishment is solidly behind him. So are the 8,000 remaining troops...
...Cover) SCENE ONE THE TIME: 1948. THE PLACE: A typical, two-room bohio, or farmhouse, on the outskirts of Laguna Verde, Dominican Republic. The name Laguna Verde, meaning Green Lagoon, is hyperbole. A ragged hamlet located about 15 miles from the Haitian border, it is the home of 500-odd campesinos who scratch out a living by growing maize and rice in sun-baked clay that scarcely tolerates thorny scrub and cactus. Inside the Marichal bohio (palm-bark walls, thatched roof, oddments of homemade furniture), a nine-year-old boy sprawls shirtless on the concrete floor, unraveling the thread from...
...Giants, to his family, to Dominicans who idolize him as a national hero, the thought of Marichal in a blazing fury is hard to conceive. "I don't understand it at all," says his shy, slender wife Alma Rosa, 21, who has known Juan since she was twelve, married him at 16. "Juan is never angry-even when he gets up in the morning." Roseboro's own roommate, Dodger Shortstop Maury Wills, insists that Juan Marichal is "a nice guy-and a great individual." He is that all right. He is the grinning practical joker who passes around...
Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic. It is election eve, but most of the attention is focused elsewhere#151;just about every radio in the city is tuned to the broadcast of a baseball game at Crosley Field in the U.S.A., where Juan Marichal is pitching against the Cincinnati Reds. The game is very tense. "If Juan were running for President," a voter sighs, "it would be a landslide." It might, and at least one poiltician knows it. Presidential Candidate Joaquin Balaguer has Juan's cousin, also named Juan Marichal, as a running mate on his ticket...
Every pitch Marichal throws today was already in his bag of tricks when he reported to San Francisco in July 1960. All but one (his screwball) were part of his repertory before he left the Dominican Republic in March 1958. In short, the Giants have not taught Juan a thing-except how to hide the ball in his glove during his windup. "I first saw Juan at the age of 19. And he looked like a ten-year pro even then," says Carl Hubbell, San Francisco's head scout and once a pretty fair pitcher himself. Giants Owner Horace...