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Chile played host to a large contingent of eager Russians, including Playwright-Author (Days and Nights) Konstantin Simonov, a power in the Soviet Writers' Union; the Cultural Ministry's Latin American chief, Konstantin Chugonov; Neurologist Leonidas Koreisha; and the 18-man Dynamo soccer team. Dynamo lost its Chilean...
Died. Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, 86, lawyer, longtime (1911-13, 1915-33) Republican Congressman from Missouri; in St. Louis. An ardent fighter against Prohibition during the '20s, "Lee" Dyer authored (in 1919) the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act which made interstate traffic in stolen autos a federal offense.
Ever since Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina seized power in the Dominican Republic in 1930, his enemies have led precarious lives, no matter how far from home they fled. In 1935 a gunman burst into a New York City apartment and killed Sergio Bencosme, onetime Interior Minister of the Dominican Republic...
Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo dramatically put himself on public trial before the world last week. In Washington, Dominican Ambassador Manuel A. de Moya announced that his government was spending $160,000 to hire a public-relations firm and two eminent U.S. lawyers to find out the facts in the case...
Under a molten summer sun, a portly figure in a Palm Beach suit set out from his seaside estate one morning last week for a constitutional along Ciudad Trujillo's palm-lined George Washington Avenue. Pedestrians were herded aside, but cars rolled by unmolested just a few yards away...