Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ohio-born Martin, a freelance magazine writer for 25 years, and a campaign speechwriter for John F. Kennedy, took perceptive daily notes throughout his diplomatic stint. He was appointed to the Dominican post by Kennedy during the power vacuum that followed the assassination of Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Martin's near-impossible assignment was to try to establish rudimentary democracy in a land that had known nearly five centuries of despotism. As he bade the ambassador goodbye Kennedy jestingly warned: "If you blow this one, you'd better not come home...
...Cleveland's Rafael Druian, 44, has been the solid cornerstone of Conductor George Szell's ensemble for six years, is the epitome of the unruffable consistency demanded of the concertmaster. Born in Russia, trained in Cuba and the U.S., he was concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony for eleven years before going to Cleveland...
Married. Mandy Rice-Davies, 21, baby-faced second lead to Star Christine Keeler in Britain's 1963 Profumo scan dals; and Rafael Shaul, 26, an Israeli airline steward; in London...
...long the lid will stay on the troubled Dominican Republic. Since Dictator Rafael Trujillo died in a fusillade of assassins' bullets in 1961, the country has had four coups and seven governments. Thus on past form alone, the country's new President Joaquín Balaguer, 59, could not be expected to last very long. But last week, after his first 21 months in office, some of the cynics who had predicted his early downfall were having second thoughts...
...Dennis ("The Menace") Ralston, 24, who ranks No. 1 in the U.S. and plays like it when he can keep a lid on his temper. Last week the only menacing thing about Dennis was his game. Mixing riflelike base-line shots with lobs, he ran Mexico's Star Rafael Osuna, 27, into the ground with a four-set victory...