Word: jims
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Pudgy, nearsighted General Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 43, already one of the world's senior dictators, last week began another five years as President of Venezuela-barring, of course, assassination or a coup by his military juniors. He won the term in a plebiscite that gave voters a choice of him or nothing. So cynically rigged was the election that two hours after the polls closed, Interior Minister Laureano Vallenilla Lanz summoned foreign newsmen to hear the results. Just as a small television receiver in the corner of his office beamed the opening of the first...
Records Every Year. Such rituals make the sum of the attention Pérez Jiménez thinks democracy needs in a country where the army is all-powerful, the ground is gushing oil, and people are getting rich from a boom that is now a decade old. In that time the capital city of Caracas has more than tripled in size to 1,100,000; the nation's population has swelled to 6,133,900. Farm hands are flocking to the cities; immigrants from Spain and Italy are pouring in. A primitive land ten years ago, Venezuela today...
...Kind of Bum. Quick success, like his ready smile, seems to cling naturally to husky (200 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.), lackadaisical Jim Garner, who, unlike Competitor Sullivan, has a hard time keeping a straight face during his five-days-a-week shooting schedule on the busy back lot of Warner Bros. Confesses Jim: "I can do it better clowning." Any way he does it, Garner gets the support of brisk direction, handsome settings, some elemental but red-blooded lines from writers like Marion Hargrove and Phi Beta Kappa (U.C.L.A., '39) Writer-Producer Roy Huggins, who describes Hero Bret...
...TIME, Sept. 16) is carried by 46 other U.S. papers and the Paris Trib, the portentous triviality of the questions offered an irresistible cue for lampoonery. In a question-and-answer column resembling the transcript of a real-life White House press conference, a presidential spokesman identified only as "Jim" started out by apologizing to reporters for arriving late from the Lido, a Paris cabaret famed for its comely, nude show girls. Getting down to business, Buchwald's Jim fidgeted through a set of spoof Q's and A's. Samples...
...Jim, whose idea was it for the President to go to sleep...