Word: jims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maybe the abrupt resignation of Pentagonite Gavin should be likened to a latter-day Mutiny on the Bounty. Suffice to say that "Slim Jim" must be pretty egocentric if he quits because the other cogs in the military wheel won't operate on the suggestions he made. What a terrific chumpnik! JEFF SPRUNG La Mesa, Calif...
...unarmed schoolboys hurled stones at police lorries and civilian freedom fighters stood up to machine-gun fire, Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Péerez Jiménez toppled with a crash that rattled the Americas' few remaining strongmen. Struggling to avoid a similar end at the hands of mountain guerrillas who have been battling for his overthrow, Cuba's President Fulgencio Batista relaxed his grip on civil rights, prepared to set up what he hoped would be a well-controlled election. And Guatemala, following its second try at presidential elections in three months, hovered at the brink of violence...
...legislation, based upon the Rockefeller Report, calling for a chief of staff empowered, under the Secretary of Defense and the President, to define roles and missions among the three services and achieve "efficient unified commands." The President's program was essentially the one previewed by Labor Secretary Jim Mitchell before the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City last fall (TIME, Dec. 16). Its principal weapon against labor racketeering and corruption would be compulsory public filing of union records. To superintend this filing, Ike asked Congress to establish a new U.S. Commissioner of Labor Reports-with subpoena powers...
From the beginning of his strongman career in 1948, Perez Jiménez believed the reverse. "My country," he liked to say, "is not ready for democracy." He took the profits of Venezuela's oil-fed prosperity, lavished them on jobmaking monuments, public buildings, superhighways, military officers' clubs. Although he left the country's illiterate peasants and day laborers in hovels, he perched a luxury hotel, a glittering restaurant and an eye-popping skating rink on top of a mountain, connected them to Caracas and the sea with a soaring system of cable cars, then started boring...
...last few strongmen (see box). Argentina, struggling to clean up the mess left by Juan PerÓn, could face its first free post-PerÓn general elections this month without the nagging threat of interference from the ousted dictator operating in plush exile in Perez Jiménez' Caracas. Colombia, lately rid of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, could get on with its rebuilding, proud of having set a good example and with fresh assurance that democracy holds the brightest promise. And the U.S., deeply involved in developing Venezuela's fabulous oil reserves, would be free...