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Colombia's major parties are Conservatives and Liberals. For 16 years, the Liberals had elected a President. But last year, Gaitan, running as a breakaway Liberal candidate, split his own party by attacking Gabriel Turbay, the official Liberal candidate. Colombia, cried Gaitan, needed a candidate issued from a "Colombian belly." Turbay's parents were Syrian...
...mothers-in-law, none might be more difficult than the U.S.'s own Emilio Gabriel Collado. A Harvard Ph.D. with a bright record as a troubleshooting economist for the Treasury and State Departments, hefty little "Pete" Collado, 36, was generally regarded as a good choice for the directorship when he was appointed last spring...
...fateful day in 1940, a would-be actress named Deborah Kerr (rhymes with star) was sitting in a London restaurant with an acquaintance of British Producer-Director Gabriel Pascal. When Pascal himself was introduced, he promptly chanted in his richest Magyar overtones: "Sweet lady, you have a spiritual face...
...wrote a bit for her into Contraband. But the bit wound up on the cutting-room floor. So Deborah continued to live at a Y.W.C.A. on 35 shillings ($7) a week and spent most of her waking hours being turned out of producers' offices. By the time Gabriel Pascal saw her, plain living and plenty of walking had etherealized the dumpling to that lithe spirit which Pascal singled...
...Communist gains, important for Brazil, were even more important in the context of emerging Communist strength in Latin America. In Chile, the Communists, thanks to their balance of power in Congress, had helped to elect President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla. President Videla rewarded them with three Cabinet posts, two of which clinched their control of Chile's vital nitrate, copper and coal unions, and of agriculture...