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...command post overlooking Managua, he ordered a daily air patrol flown over the Gulf of Fonseca. He hustled supplies south to his National Guard patrols, who crossed the border and shot up a Costa Rican town. He cabled every Latin American republic that Nicaraguan exiles were meeting in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, organizing an expedition to overthrow...
...Limón is still a dedicated man. Mexican-born, he quit college in Los Angeles to study art in Manhattan, had no dance training at all when friends sent him to Dancers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, a pair of experimenters whom dance historians bracket with Martha Graham. In his ten years with their group Limon was first student, then teacher and featured soloist. Limon left them only because he was ready to go out on his own. Still his adviser, Doris Humphrey runs many of his rehearsals, did the choreography for two of the four works...
Grand Canyon without Pirouettes. Tall (6 ft.) and dynamic, Limón spent 2½ years in the Army (he got out in 1945) but lost none of his technique there. He believes in clarity of line and clarity of story in dancing, is one of the few modern dancers a non-aficionado audience can watch and understand through a whole program-Classical ballet, he thinks, is unAmerican. Says he: "The ballet is such a sophisticated vocabulary. It's perfect for the experiences of lords and ladies, princesses and fairies and other imaginary characters. But those...
Each time Limón puts on a recital, he has to borrow production money, pay it back from the box-office take. Says he: "We just barely break even. Everyone gets paid but me." What money he earns comes from a back-breaking teaching program: at Manhattan's Dance Players Studios, at the Katharine Dunham School, at Boston's Duncanbury School of the Arts, at Sarah Lawrence College...
...Limón knows "it would be easy to go to Hollywood and make a lot of money and buy an automobile and a suburban home. But for what? Anybody can be comfortable." (Not so averse to Broadway money, he danced in As Thousands Cheer and Keep off the Grass.) Says he: "I don't know what other way I'd want to spend my life. If I couldn't dance, I wouldn't want to live...