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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acquitted for the 1955 assassination of Panamanian President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón. The Panamanian leaders persuaded the largely ignorant Cubans that Panama was crushed under the iron heel of a military dictatorship and was yearning for freedom. The invasion was supposed to be coordinated with the plot attempted fortnight ago (TIME, May 4) by Roberto ("Tito") Arias, a cousin of Miró's and the husband of British Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: End of an Invasion | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

False Position. Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, who had been telling U.S. audiences that he flatly opposed Caribbean filibusters, knew all about the Panamanian plot, but was caught aback as the Arias-Fonteyn flop placed Panama in a spotlight of world attention. He ordered his brother, Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, to come to Houston for a private talk. The Castros sent a pair of their bearded officers to Panama to persuade the invaders to withdraw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: End of an Invasion | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...modern fiction's psychological jungle, her homespun plot seems both soothing and revolutionary. John Wood, trusted employee of a land-company, is regarded as a paragon of virtue in his town of some 2,000 people. He is handsome beyond compare, a superintendent of the Sunday school, and gives the devotion of a medieval knight to his chronically sick wife. His son Philip is a senior in high school and is, if anything, a cut above the old block-handsome, kind, courteous, his mother's protector, his school's hero and his minister's pride. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Real Were the Virtues | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Author Suckow, now 66, lives in California, but not even painful arthritis can stop her pen. She has several books going, and there is nothing in this new one to suggest that Iowa will ever leave her blood. Wooden in plot and undistinguished in writing, The John Wood Case finds its strength in an evocation of the kind of life that the nation may never know again, a society in which the Bible was a fact of life, in which an austere Sunday dinner was eaten in the presence of a blackboard which bore "discussion themes" for the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Real Were the Virtues | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Rebel Without a Cause has all the fatalistic qualities of a Greek drama combined with the twisted and decadent realism of a Tennessee Williams play. The plot of the movie largely depends upon the tragedy of misunderstanding; Jim Stark's parents misunderstand him; the same is true for Judy; Plato tries to forget his parents and adopts Jim as his father-image ("Why couldn't you have been my Dad?"); and, as usual, the police manage to misunderstand everyone...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Rebel Without a Cause | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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