Word: nez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ballet corps from 15 countries, Massine, 64, recruited as many married male dancers as possible on the theory that "married men are more convincing when they make love on stage." During the five months of rehearsals, he insisted on demonstrating each step to the dancers, with a pince-nez perched on the end of his nose and his head shielded from the Italian sun by a black umbrella...
...city streets in the presidential limousine chatting to Defense Minister Josue Lopez Henríquez and Mrs. Henriquez, who were beside him. A onetime leftist grown moderate with the years, Betancourt came to power two years ago after the overthrow of the tyrant Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and devoutly hopes to symbolize an end to the traditional violence of oil-rich Venezuela. Chauffeur Azael Valero swung the black presidential car onto the Avenida de los Próceres near the school. Ahead on the divided street sat a parked 1954 green Oldsmobile...
...tried to kill Betancourt? Venezuelan intelligence agents had earlier warned the President that cronies of ousted Dictator Pérez Jiménez had hired four ex-Nazi military engineers in Spain to do the job. Last week, after the blast, Betancourt also implicated an old enemy: Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The bombing was no amateur blast. It was set off by remote control, showing a technical skill with explosives. The plotters also had access to minute information about Betancourt's movements. Laid low by gall bladder trouble for a week before the Armed Forces Day celebration...
These misguided accommodations to Pérez Jiménez have been used by critics of the U.S., especially left-wing critics, to build up the impression that Washington likes dictators. Quite obviously, the U.S. favors democracy as a governing principle, does not put Latin American dictators into power, recognizes them once in power only as it recognizes any ruling government. But a policy of correctness to dictators leaves plenty of room for a policy of warmth to democratic governments, and there is more warmth in Washington these days for men in Betancourt's mold...
...private investment, which has so far provided $25 billion to Latin America, remains the best supply, but it is shy; Betancourt is paying off Pérez Jiménez' bad debts to prove good faith to private investors, nonetheless faces a painful outflow of private capital. But half a dozen new ideas for providing Latin America with capital are afloat in the hemisphere...