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...City's Ambassador Hotel. "They had satin sheets on the beds." The "people" were Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., who checked out of a full-floor Ambassador suite last week after failing to get a diploma from the Army Command and General Staff College at nearby Fort Leavenworth, Kans. With two aides, a collie and 35 pieces of luggage, he boarded a private railroad car bound for the West Coast and the only person who seemed to care: Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor...
...playing fields of Hollywood, where he dazzled Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kim Novak and Joan Collins with chinchilla, Mercedes-Benz convertibles and diamond bracelets, Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 29, lost a somewhat less entrancing war in Kansas. From the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, which Ramfis attended in between nightclub-commando exercises, came the word: the young general "did not successfully complete the course." Lest Ramfis lose himself in remorse, kindly Uncle Héctor Trujillo, figurehead President of the Dominican Republic, provided a nice nongraduation present: appointment to the newly created post...
Commander in chief of the two-bit Dominican air force, Ramfis came to the U.S. last summer to attend a year's course at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kans. Because of frequent leaves, arranged through his embassy in Washington, he has apparently remained innocent of the higher principles of military strategy, but his cafeé-society tactics have improved by the week...
...fact: back home, Ramfis has a wife named Octavia ("Tan Tan") and six children. Frankly surprised, Kim said she had planned to send the car back anyway. "There's not even room in my carport," said she. Zsa Zsa was gladly hanging on to both her presents. At Leavenworth, the Army announced that Ramfis, who last week had his adenoids removed, had been completing his assignments by mail, and he would graduate in June along with his less-traveled classmates...
...twelve hours, the rebel defenders were in flight along the road to Bukittinggi, 58 miles away, and Padang was firmly in the control of Djakarta's Colonel Achmad Jani, who had learned his lessons well at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...