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...victory, the parties to the left of defeated Candidate Juan Bosch have dissipated their strength by intramural squabbling. Balaguer has denied the far left a leader by preventing the return of rebels who were shipped abroad after the civil war, and by appointing one of the wiliest, Hector Aristy Pereira, representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council in Paris...
...Hollywood vulgar or Spanish phony. While Los Angeles, like many big cities, has mile after mile of uninspired, tractlike homes, more and more of its buildings and residences are the work of some of the world's best architects: Richard J. Neutra, John Lautner, Lloyd Wright, William Pereira, Victor Gruen, Welton Becket. Tasteful homes have sprouted everywhere-along the streets and boulevards, in the glens and canyons, around the foothills, up the sides of the hills along the beaches, out into the Mojave Desert...
...such projects as construction of 350 miles of roads to stimulate dairy and beef production, reduce dependence on cotton. Foreign investors have teamed with local entrepreneurs to produce everything from TV sets to insecticides-and a new class of forward-looking managers, such as Businessman (construction, automobile parts) Enrique Pereira, 42, is emerging to "take the country out of the feudal ages for everybody's benefit...
...work week during which he spends some days in his study at home, others alone in an isolated office that he keeps on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard, still others at an office in his Fullerton head quarters, a glass, stone and aluminum building designed for Hunt by Architect William Pereira. On weekends he and his wife frequently move north to a sprawling house by the Pacific Ocean at Lido Isle, and at least one week a month Simon travels to the East Coast to attend board meetings and see to new business...
What the visitors will find should gladden their eyes and their metatarsal arches. Before designing the building, Architect Pereira examined the plan of every known museum, conducted an exhaustive questionnaire of museumgoers, resolved to cope with their pet peeves and hates. To beat museum fatigue, the floors are carpeted wall-to-wall; elevators spare staircase schlepping; Mies and Eames chairs beckon visitors everywhere. To defeat the claustrophobia resulting from endless galleries, there is plenty of glass and natural light. "We did not want it to be a forbidding place, full of cul-de-sacs, but a pleasant, outdoorsy place," Pereira...