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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As befits a nation ruled through most of its 130 years by dictators, the transition was made with the aid of a crutch: a pre-election agreement among the major parties that whichever won would take the others into coalition government. At last week's celebration, televised from Caracas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The Common Good | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Sitting beside Betancourt, the heads of the other coalition parties, Jóvito Villalba of the Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.) and Rafael Caldera of the Social Christian COPEI, reaffirmed the pact with such emphasis that they unconsciously revealed the strains within it. Most of the strains come from the division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The Common Good | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

In high Dominican society, one of the most enduring institutions has been the 22-year engagement of Hector Trujillo, 51, and Alma McLaughlin, 38. Both come from top families: he is the youngest brother of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and nominal President of the country; she is the daughter of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Presidential Wedding | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

New Hampshire's Novelist Grace (Return to Peyton Place) Metalious blew into Manhattan, called a press conference, was soon berating Hollywood Producer Jerry Wald for more or less tricking her into writing her latest exposé of small-town wickedness. In agreement with most critics, Grace growled: "This isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

In the wake of his recent statement that Soviet composers like to rehash old Czarist motifs instead of going in new directions, Conductor Leonard Bernstein, lionized in the Soviet Union only three months ago, was drawn and quarter-noted in the newspaper Soviet Culture. It was also hinted that when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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