Word: garc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sons & Suns. Bearden, 53, has spent 30 years developing his technique. In the late 1930s he studied under Satirist George Grosz at Manhattan's Art Students League, next fell under the combined influences of Picasso, García Lorca and Hemingway (a 1946 show of gaudy oils and watercolors was inspired by García Lorca's lament for a bullfighter). In the 1950s, he painted in Paris, took a turn in Manhattan as a professional songwriter but periodically returned to canvases of Negro life. He began to use collage only in the 1960s...
...help keep an eye on the city's 519 prisoners. Northern hippies who came south for Acapulco gold (maximum penalty for possession: six years) were jammed in with hardened characters like Félix Radilla, wanted for 85 murders, and Constáncio ("Black Animal") Hernández García, whose gang gunned down 18 soldiers a few months ago. The prisoners pay a price for everything: a cot to sleep on, half-decent food to eat, "protection" from the other prisoners, a few hours of privacy with a wife or girl friend. Many who can afford...
...June 1 election neared, provisional President Héctor García-Godoy could afford a sigh of satisfaction. "I feel sure," he said, "that the next President will have some basis for order and stability." Armed Forces Minister General Enrique Pérez y Pérez, under whom the army has become more transigent, promised last week that the armed forces "will respect the popular will." Dominicans, facing their first free elections since 1962, could only hope that the mood would last...
...Silvie Portray, for leadership in setting up treatment centers for the mentally retarded in Belgium, and Mrs. Eloisa García Etchegoyhen de Lorenzo, for doing the same in Uruguay (to each, a personal $12,500 plus $25,000 to carry on her work...
...suddenly as the storm came up, it seemed to pass. Next morning, Caminero told newsmen that he was ready to leave the country as soon as he straightened out some personal matters. Then a few hours later, after talking with García-Godoy, he changed his mind. "The armed forces," said Caminero, "are agreed that in the best interests of the fatherland, we cannot accept the presidential decision, and we are hopeful he will reconsider." At week's end Caminero met with the OAS's Alvim and agreed to turn Radio Santo Domingo over...