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...Might. In a cream-colored stucco house in suburban Teusaquillo, things had changed, too. There, beside the bier of her murdered husband, Senora Amparo Jaramillo de Gaitan, 35, sat with her daughter Gloria, 10. For days she refused to permit his burial unless Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez first resigned. Even if she relented, the wobbly government could hardly risk a huge public funeral. Finally Dario Echandia, Liberal leader in Ospina's new cabinet, arranged a solution that Senora de Gaitan accepted: a private funeral this week at Gaitan's home, with burial of the body...
Belgium's exiled King Leopold III stepped off a chartered Dutch freighter at Havana with his beauteous commoner wife, the Princess de Rethy, his begoggled son, Prince Baudouin, and 40 pieces of baggage. Cuba's Major General Genovevo Perez Damera and a battery of cameramen gave the party a royal welcome (see cut). The Hotel Nacional apologetically provided the best in the house-a mere presidential suite, but free. Cuban Sugaristocrat José Goméz Meña threw a great big garden party. After two weeks of "recreation and study" (the Princess raised some eyebrows...
...continent, was thoroughly enjoying the crisis. By taking its one-sixth royalty (70 million barrels) in kind from the big private companies and then reselling most of it back to them at scarcity prices, the government was ringing up a fancy profit. Venezuelan Oil Czar Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso, in a deal that would give Argentine State Trader Miguel Miranda a dose of his own medicine, was ready to barter 2 million barrels of Venezuela's high-priced oil for Miranda's expensive beef. Oil-starved Argentines thought the medicine not too bitter...
...three supporters were dead. So was the pregnant wife of the house owner. Another man died later of wounds. A ten-month-old baby and eleven others were wounded. The shooting had lasted long enough for a movie cameraman to record it in detail. Army Chief Genovevo Perez Damera saw the film, denounced the affair as a "monstrous assassination." He ordered Salabarria and several of his followers charged with murder and began a general roundup of Salabarria partisans...
Critic. In Santa Clara, Cuba, Maria Barbara Perez wearied of her common-law husband's bathtub vocalizing, beat him to death with an automobile spring...