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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HORACIO CASATI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 16, 1969 | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...Mediterranean force, lacking big aircraft carriers, would be no match for the Sixth Fleet, with its 50 combat ships, including two carriers and two cruisers, 200 aircraft and 25,000 men. The Russian squadron in the Mediterranean is, in fact, smaller than the Italian navy. But as U.S. Admiral Horacio Rivero, commander of NATO forces in Southern Europe, notes: "While the Soviet flotilla is a potential military threat, its greatest importance is political and psychological. The number of ships is not too important. The presence of one ship has a political impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: NEW REALITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...Felipe Alou, first in hits (67), second in doubles (11), third in runs (30); Pittsburgh's Matty Alou (Felipe's brother), the league leader in triples (7), and Manny Mota, who last week was leading the league in batting (.361). It is a tribute to Horacio's loyalty that all three were originally the property of the San Francisco Giants-and no reflection on his judgment that none still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Dandy Dominican | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...going to catch Julio Cortázar making things too clear. "Sometimes I am convinced," muses one character, "that the triangle is another name for stupidity, that eight times eight is madness or a dog." When this character, a Uruguayan woman called La Maga, goes to bed with Horacio Oliveira, an Argentine, they make love in "Gliglish": "Right away she tordled her hurgales, allowing him gently to bring up his orfelunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 8 X 8 = Gliglish | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

Amado reads his characters in depth. There is no facile division into good guys and bad guys, and everyone's motives are mixed. The lawyer, Virgilio, who helps Horacio outwit the Badarós, also seduces Horacio's pretty wife. And spade-bearded Sinhó Badaró, who has arranged the killing of many men, still agonizes over each decision-in fact, his soul searching destroys the efficiency of his best gunman, Negro Damião. As in U.S. westerns, the land is the real hero, breeding men as luxuriant, lavish and cruel as itself. Presumably spurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fastest Gun in the Northeast | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

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