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Slated for a continued five-year term as President is Nicolas Grunitzky, 50, the mulatto son of a Prussian doctor and Togolese mother who headed a pro-French puppet regime before Olympio gained independence from Paris in 1960, and who was called upon to take over as Provisional President last January. Ticketed to stay on as Vice President was Antoine Meatchi, 37, a tall, ambitious northern tribesman. To keep the various party factions happy, the election organizers agreed in advance on the makeup of a 56-member National Assembly, divided among virtually all political parties, including Olympio's Comit...
...hates his movies. "In a film, you are a puppet," he says. "On a stage, you are the boss." Significantly, he was the tribune Marcellus in The Robe, the first CinemaScope spectacle. "It is the bane of my life," he says. "Whenever a fan comes up to me and says, 'I enjoyed you in ..." I wince, and wait. It's almost always The Robe. The picture was rubbish. It was written as if for Peg's Paper*It was tastelessly sentimental, and badly acted by me." How did he like The Rains of Ran-chipur? "Beyond human belief." Bitter Victory...
Standing under a banner marked CANADA: A POWER, NOT A PUPPET, a dignified rage in his deep-set blue eyes, Diefenbaker would declare: "There are interests against me, powerful interests." He had the Prairie Provinces solidly behind him, thanks to the Tories' $425.6 million wheat sales to Red China. To the farmers, the fact that the eastern financial and industrial interests, the big-city vote and all major Conservative newspapers but two were against him, made his candidacy only the more gallant...
...Peronista dilemma short of another fight. In September, after a bloody skirmish, a constitutional-minded faction of the military, headed by General Juan Carlos Ongania, 48, a sensible professional soldier, took power and promised to hold elections in June-even let the Peronistas campaign. The puppet government of President José Maria Guido set out to form a "National Front" that would wed Frondizi's old Intransigent Radical Party (with 18% of the popular vote), the Peronistas (more than 30%), and the Christian Democrats (5%). But alas, as the promised elections drew ever closer, anti-Peronista jitters...
Every hope for continued progress, however, runs smack into the hard fact of Cuba. Nikita Khrushchev's thrust into that island turned Fidel Castro from a hero to a puppet in much of Latin America. When Kennedy forced Khrushchev to retrieve his long-range missiles and bombers, respect for the U.S. soared. Yet much of that has been dissipated by the realization that Cuba's potential for troublemaking in the hemisphere is still growing. That threat alone meant that there would be much worth talking about at the Presidents' meeting...