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...powder, the mambo had left unstormed only the tango strongholds of Argentina and the samba-land of Brazil. In all the other Americas, dancers quivered and kicked-sedately in swank nightclubs and wildly in smoky dives-to the mambo beat. This week its originator, Dámaso Pérez Prado, 29, was scheduled to arrive in New York to carry the assault...
...Notably, handsome Lightweight Justo Antonio Suárez, who held rank equivalent to First Secretary of Embassy when he fought Billy Petrolle, the old "Fargo Express," in 1931. First Secretary Suarez lasted nine rounds...
...chartered DC-3 that was to take them to Caracas for the holidays. The lads, aged 9 to 17, sons of prominent Caracas families, were students at Father Vélaz' Colegio de San Jose at Merida in western Venezuela; two were nephews of President German Suárez Flamerich. As they walked out to the plane in the midday heat, strapping, Chilean-born Father Vélaz waved goodbye...
Gabaldón tentatively accepted the job, but added one condition: all political parties must be represented in the new government. Hard-bitten Lieut. Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the junta's boss, spurned the terms as "too idealistic." This week the junta installed German Suaréz Flammerich, ex-ambassador to Peru and a nonparty man like Gabaldón, as its new president. Flammerich presumably made no idealistic conditions. As for elections, which Venezuela has long hoped for, Boss Pérez Jiménez said that was a problem calling for "further study...
...Liberal majority in Congress, pledged to convene on the constitutional date of July 20, had bowed to a decree by Conservative President Ospina Pérez forbidding the meeting but granting the Congressmen's usual 600-peso monthly allowance. Some of the Liberals did meet-in the Hotel Granada Rose Room. Sneered El Sigh's columnist, Julio Abril: "They deliberated over a bottle of Vat 69, taking the matter not only with great calm but also with soda...