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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bemedaled then, beset now-symbolizes a growing U.S. distaste for dictators. For decades the U.S. was accused of buttering up strongmen. Eager to thaw anti-Yankee Juan Perón, for example, the State Department sent Latin American Chief Henry Holland to Argentina in 1954 to toast the dictator for "purest sincerity." The U.S. propped Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somosa, who seized power after the Marines pulled out, on Franklin Roosevelt's theory that "he may be an s.o.b., but he's ours." In Peru, Military Strongman Manuel Odria got the Legion of Merit for running...
...Last May the N.B.A. deprived Champion Sugar Ray Robinson of his title for refusing to fight either Fullmer or Basilio, left the aging (39) Harlem flash the middleweight champ of only the two non-N.B.A. states: Massachusetts and New York...
Anatomy of a Murder. Producer-Director Otto Preminger's effective courtroom melodrama that seems less concerned with murder than with anatomy. James Stewart is the lawyer and Lee Remick the defendant's inviting wife, in a court whose memorable presiding judge is famed Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch...
Albuquerque, N. Mex., Summerhouse: Fancy Meeting You Again, an old one by George S. Kaufman and Leueen MacGrath...
Santa Fe, N. Mex., Summer Theater: A Shaw standard, Don Juan in Hell...