Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much did Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo pay Lawyer Morris Ernst and his associates for their report absolving Trujillo in the Galindez-Murphy murders (TIME, July 29, 1957)? The figure, as announced by the Justice Department: $562,855.39 in fees and expenses, one of the largest payoffs ever reported under the Foreign Agents Registration...
...always new dances to master. The Murrays are ever on the lookout, will go a long way to study a new dance. Their current specialty, researched in the Caribbean: the stiff-legged merengue, an old folk dance that some say got a new lease on life after Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo was injured in a car accident, could not limber up to the beguine or bolero...
...against President Luis Somoza. In July a boatload of revolutionaries from Miami stormed ashore in Haiti only to be riddled by President null Duvalier's army. The next day Dominican rebels were nabbed loading arms on another C46 in Miami, apparently with the suicidal intention of invading Dictator Rafael Trujillo's ironclad state. And for every expedition caught, many more plotters get through to stir up big and little trouble down south...
...disconcerting editorial flabbiness also crept in. Example: the Trib recently spiked stories on the Hollywood high jinks of Dominican Playboy Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr. (see THE HEMISPHERE), which occurred as the paper was getting out a 48-page advertising supplement on the Dominican Republic. The jazzed-up Trib lost serious readership to the ad-heavy, news-fat Times (circ. 663,106), but gained few readers from the morning tabloids, the crisp News (circ. 2,014,542), Hearst's snappy Mirror (circ...
...Angeles expressways, multiparking garages and motels. It shows the plazas of Rockefeller Center. I.M. Pei's Denver Mile-High Center, and Mies van der Rohe's Manhattan Seagram Building. It chronicles the mass move to the suburbs by displaying a variety of housing, ranging from Rafael Soriano's garden apartments in Los Angeles to the up-to-date housing of Levittown, Pa. and suburban shopping and industrial centers, e.g., Eero Saarinen's General Motors Technical Center outside Detroit...