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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since last August after completing his six-year jail term for stealing government funds. In absentia, he won a Senate seat, a position that will allow him to return home with im munity from civil suits. Eleven of his followers, moreover, have been elected Deputies to Venezuela's lower house so far. Some voters said they voted for Perez Jimenez because in the old dictatorial days, Perez Jimenez' police goons belted the bandits before they had a chance to rob anybody. Under the new democratic regimes, there seems to be more police restraint and crime in the streets...
...healthy people are especially susceptible to disabling illness that lasts several weeks. Others can throw off the flu after a week or so, with perhaps half that time spent in bed on a high fluid intake. No medication does much good, except aspirin to ease the discomfort and help lower the fever...
...pictures showed that a tiny fragment of the bullet was wandering about in his ventricles, the fluid-containing cavities deep inside the brain. When Barrios lay flat on his back, the fragment stayed in an upper ventricle. When he stood up, it went into a smaller, lower ventricle. When he lay down again, it tended to drift back up. The great danger was that it would get stuck in the narrow passage between the ventricles, thereby cutting off the fluid that drains into the spinal canal, and causing fatal pressure within Barrios' skull...
...Here we are," says the cabby, stopping at No. 429 Broome Street, an unlighted storefront in lower Manhattan with a FOR LET sign taped to one black-painted window. By day, Broome Street is a bustling, truck-clogged thoroughfare; at 9 p.m. it is all but deserted. Doubtfully, the passenger pays the cabby and walks over to try the door of the store. It is locked. He is about to return to the taxi when he notices a small bell push, hidden in the shadows. He presses; a buzzer signals that the door is unlocked. He steps inside a tiny...
First there are the sets. "They can't go out whistling the scenery" is the axiom of the musical theater. Yet audiences will at least go out whistling at the scenery. John Box's sets-the largest ever made in England-are miraculous recreations of higher and lower London. Here are the scrubbed Georgian facades of Bloomsbury, the madding, clangorous market streets, the crowded mass of blackened chimneys and gables in the Thamesside jungle. All, all are lifted from England of the 1830's and set down without so much as a cobblestone out of place...