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...through drastic economic and social reforms, but his successor paid too little attention to the military. Within three years, his Action Democrática party was turned out by another coup that led to the brutal, ten-year rule of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jimènez, a general. His next chance at office, Betancourt went all out to convince the small (33,000 men) but powerful armed forces that they had nothing to fear from democracy...
...Pamphili, Bacon has never gone to see it. The gum-baring shriek that gapes out of so many of his portraits is copied from a still from Sergei Eisenstein's film of 1925, The Battleship Potemkin, in which a horrified nurse is shot point-blank through her pince-nez. Why these subjects? "They haunt me," Bacon replies...
Sosa Rodríguez is just that. A great-great-granduncle on his father's side signed Venezuela's preliminary declaration of independence in 1810. Sosa Rodríguez was ambassador in London when Marcos Pérez Jiménez made himself President in 1952. He went into self-exile, returned when Dictator Pérez Jiménez was overthrown, and since 1958 has been Venezuela's permanent representative...
...BILL DANA SHOW (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A new situation comedy about a hotel bellhop based on the character José Jiménez. Premi...
...editor of its monthly magazine The Crisis, got in trouble with his fiery editorials advocating separate "self-dependence" for his race, left for good in 1948 in a dispute over-of all things-his endorsement of Henry A. Wallace for President. Haughtily elegant, sporting a white goatee and pince-nez, he boasted of his French-Dutch-Negro mixed blood ("but, thank God, no Anglo-Saxon"), turned left with age, two years ago moved to Ghana to become director of the Nkrumah government-sponsored Encyclopedia Africana, and joined the Communist Party, apologizing for having been so "long and slow" in confirming...