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Gabaldón tentatively accepted the job, but added one condition: all political parties must be represented in the new government. Hard-bitten Lieut. Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the junta's boss, spurned the terms as "too idealistic." This week the junta installed German Suaréz Flammerich, ex-ambassador to Peru and a nonparty man like Gabaldón, as its new president. Flammerich presumably made no idealistic conditions. As for elections, which Venezuela has long hoped for, Boss Pérez Jiménez said that was a problem calling for "further study...
...rain-soaked beach at Cap Gris Nez one night last week, 24 grease-plastered men & women waded into the English Channel and struck out for England. By next night, when the last competitor was pulled exhausted from the water, a world's record had been broken, seven men and two women had succeeded in swimming all the way to Dover beach...
While Malik droned on, the other ten delegates sat patiently around the horseshoe table. From the ceiling, television lights glared down on the high-domed head of Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, the pince-nez of the U.S.'s Warren Austin, the long nose of France's Jean Chauvel, the doodling hand of China's Tingfu F. Tsiang...
...year older, twelve pounds heavier (168), and a year wiser about the Channel than when she tried and failed last summer (TIME, Sept. 19, 1949). A little before 3 one morning last week, Shirley May, well-coated with sheep grease, waded into the water at Cap Gris Nez and struck out for Dover, 19 miles away...
...only issue his opponents could dredge up was the old charge that Osorio, whose face resembles the broad, brown Indian features of ex-Dictator Maximiliano Martínez, is in fact Martínez' illegitimate son. In a country where little stigma is attached to bastardy, this campaign flopped dismally. Osorio denied the charge, explained good-humoredly: "All us Indians look alike...