Word: p
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mirrored Épée. After the performance, Dancer Lifar tossed his black locks in indignation, declared that he was challenging Cuevas to a duel. "Out of respect for his great age," he would allow the marquis the choice of weapons. The marquis answered. "I wish I could choose the whip, to give him a good drubbing," but decided on the more conventional ép...
While photographers and newsmen crowded his swank Faubourg St.-Germain apartment, Cuevas briskly flourished an épée in front of a gilt mirror-or as briskly as his rheumatism, poor eyesight and recently broken leg would permit. Lifar, in turn, exhibited his thrusts and parries to newsmen at a local fencing school, where he was practicing. At a chance meeting in a TV studio, brutal words were exchanged. Cried Lifar: "I feel sorry for you; you can hardly see. But I'll make you dance a minuet to my épée." Replied Cuevas: "Your handkerchief...
Venezuela's ex-Strongman Marcos Pérez Jiménez has already moved his wife and four daughters to four $60-a-day suites in Miami Beach's Sans Souci Hotel, has a visitor's visa that will let him enter the U.S. any time. His No. 2 man, former Security Police Chief Pedro Estrada, is lying low somewhere in the U.S., having entered on an immigrant's visa...
...York Times last week deplored the fact that "unwelcome guests" can "prance easily into our midst while hundreds of thousands of worthier souls are barred altogether." But U.S. law lets Latin Americans immigrate without a quota. Political asylum seekers are tested for: pauperism, subversion, moral turpitude. Neither Pérez Jiménez nor Estrada is anywhere near broke; the strongman is said to have squirreled away $250 million. Neither has Communist or Fascist ties, nor has either plotted against the succeeding government (the ground for denying Perón a U.S. visa). Neither is technically guilty of moral turpitude...
Fellow Travelers. Following the satellite through space is the empty third-stage rocket, which was separated from it by a clockwork device that released a weak spring and pushed the two bodies apart. Dr. John P. Hagen, head of Project Vanguard, says that satellite and rocket are still moving apart slowly. The rocket, which has an irregular shape, will be more strongly affected by such little air resistance as there is even at orbit's perigee and will therefore be the first to drop back into the atmosphere and vaporize. But this will not happen for a long time...