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Boston College's Jose Rocha ran a course-record 29:45.3 to win the men's 10,000 meter race, while Boston University's Beth McMacken shattered the women's old 5000-meter mark with her first-place finish...
...self-proclaimed king of jelly bean art, a title no one is likely to contest. In past political times, the "jelly bean impressionism" of Peter Rocha, 43, might well have received the critical reception accorded oils of bullfighters on black velvet or children with big watery eyes. But with a prime consumer of jelly beans in the White House, Rocha hopes that his art will catch the public's fancy. Rocha attests to using Jelly Bellys, the President's favorite, because "they are the only brand with a full color spectrum." And he has at last found...
...army. Gueiler was happy to oblige; she selected General Rene Villaroel, a moderate officer, for Garcia Meza's post. But Garcia Meza, backed by the army's conservative senior officers, would not vacate his command. He refused to step down unless Gueiler replaced him with General Ruben Rocha Patino, a fellow right-winger with close ties to ex-Dictator Hugo Banzer Suarez...
Finally Gueiler, who had been a confidante of Chile's late Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, caved in to Garcia Meza's demand, appointing Rocha Patino to the army post last week. He obligingly proclaimed that the protesting officers were now ready "to bear with dignity and stoicism whatever sacrifices are demanded by the democratic cause." But Rocha Patifto's statement, cynics noted, was at best a rather lukewarm endorsement of Gueiler's fledgling regime...
Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour, and a Stan Brakhage short, The Process, Thursday, April 18, 8 p.m., Glauber Rocha's Der Leone Have Sept Cabezas, with Jean-Pierre Leaud, Sunday, April...