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...security agents went to Venezuela by the score. The U.S. cruiser Northampton was ordered to stand by off Caracas, ostensibly as a communications ship but actually loaded with a detachment of U.S. marines. On his part, Betancourt ordered a roundup of known agitators; some 2,000 were collared and tossed into jail for the period of the Kennedy visit. Betancourt also ordered that thousands of Caracas cops and Venezuelan army troops be posted along the Kennedys' route into Caracas from the airport...
...list. But just in case, we have in recent weeks been compiling other lists too. Last week TIME printed four columns of recommendations among gift books, the kind "that deserve to be read (or looked at), not just given." This week's book section contains a somewhat caustic roundup of recent children's books. Our survey of children's records in the Dec. 1 issue was more cheerful: it found and recommended "more than a few moments of genuine magic on microgroove...
...social stigma. Children remain with their mother and are accepted by the new husband in case of separation and remarriage. Two "trials" seem to be the maximum, and eighty per cent of the couples get married in the Church at the end of their first. A yearly ronda, or roundup, keeps the ancient system working smoothly. The alcades, traditional religious leaders of the community, stage midnight raids on all houses and cornfields where they suspect that unmarried couples are sleeping. These couples are apprehended and married, by force if necessary, the following Sunday in a mass Church ceremony. Some enterprising...
Focus on America (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A cattle roundup on the biggest ranch in North America, the 1,000,000-acre Gang Ranch near Clinton...
Next fortnight he plans to take off for 13 weeks in the States on another money-raising roundup. This time the bishop hopes to be traveling on a brand-new passport-a Brazilian one. After long pondering the matter, he applied for Brazilian citizenship. "After 17 years of beans, rice, and transfusions by Amazon mosquitoes, I am a Brazilian," he says. "The most important part of my past life was spent on the Amazon, and if I'm lucky the rest of it will be spent here, too. It may sound corny, but these are my people...