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...Dominican Working Class, Genius of Peace, was gone, his body, grotesquely disfigured by 27 bullet wounds, stuffed in the trunk of the soon-to-be-abandoned car belonging to a disgruntled general named Juan Tomás Diaz. Outlived among the world's strongmen by Portugal's milder Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Trujillo had been the model for every tinpot, medal-jingling dictator that ever rifled a Latin American treasury. Even as he died, he was on a typical Trujillo mission-a midnight meeting with one of his many mistresses, Moni Sanchez, at his San Crist...
...theory that movies are a special, and specially public, medium. Books present problems, too, as for instance Henry Miller's notorious Tropic of Cancer (see BOOKS). But even bestsellers have a smaller audience-and less direct impact-than any movie. Actually, the anti-Hollywood protests have been far milder than might have been expected, considering the varieties of erotica and sexual aberrations explored by today's film makers: fornication, adultery, incest, prostitution, pimping, nymphomania, voyeurism, frigidity, rape, homosexuality, cannibalism and necrophilia...
...second, bacterial infection, and an antihistaminic (Chlor-Trimeton), and told her to breathe humid air as much as possible. She did-by sitting in a rocking chair next to a hot shower for half an hour at a stretch. Her son Marc, 6, came down with a similar but milder case; mother and son shared a room, with three croup kettles steaming through the night...
...terms of situation, now of talk. Moreover-which is the play's new wrinkle, the key to its change of key-Williams is suggesting that, far from so many people having hideous lives and fates, most people really needn't suffer from even the milder, more widespread afflictions. He has called off the bloodhounds at last, and would simply have people try harder to cooperate and understand...
...most part, the business economists expressing an opinion-their job is forecasting the ups and downs of the economy for corporations and financial institutions-believe that the current down turn became pronounced in August. They also believe that the drop will be milder than in the last recession. Their idea of the course of the current recession is that the gross national product will drop only about 1%-a fall of about $5 billion v. a $16.8 billion fall in 1957-58. What they foresee is a bigger drop in industrial production while gross national product remains strong, buoyed...