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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-establishment "Constitutionalists" during the 1965 civil war, is reportedly holed up in Cuba or The Netherlands. Balaguer also will have opposition within his own middle-of-the-road Reformista Party, which is split between his supporters and those who favor the election of Vice President Francisco Lora next time around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: Inflaming the Inflammable | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...plot is thin. It's about this female, Lora, played by a well-developed Italian girl named Isabel Sarli, who has the sexiest way of standing over her husband and her love after she has left them at the bottom of a hole. The men have spent most of the film digging--looking for water they say. In fact they spent so much time digging it that a kid sitting behind me left halfway through, groaning under his breath, "that's just one shovel-full too many...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: The Female | 3/23/1968 | See Source »

...After Lora leaves the two men to die, she goes to the city where she becomes a hardened prostitute. But a hole in the ceiling of her working-room (like the hole her lover and husband were digging, get it?) reminds her of her misdeed and she can't be a good prostitute. Her madam often casts scowering looks at Lora, and tells her to "work like the other girls or get out." A whorehouse, very obviously, is not a home...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: The Female | 3/23/1968 | See Source »

...Santo Domingo. Within minutes, 133 U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne were on their way by helicopter and plane to Santiago. By the time they snuffed out the battle, the hotel was a shambles, and 23 loyalist Dominican troops and five rebels were dead, including Colonel Juan Maria Lora Fernández, 40, a U.S.-trained officer who was Caamaño's chief of staff during the April revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: A Round for the Pessimists | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...desert-such as they are-have also made a comeback. Great disks of land that nuclear explosions wiped clear of plants are now covered again. Seeds in the ground apparently were not killed: some bomb-denuded places bloomed during the following spring with unusually luxuriant growths of tumbleweed. Biologist Lora Shields of New Mexico Highlands University, who is studying the site's resurgent biology, says that the spherical tumbleweeds rolled across the denuded sites scattering their seeds, and found the atomized soil exactly to their liking. So far, no atom-induced plant mutations have appeared, and trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Bomb Site | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

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