Word: santo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days went by, the news out of Santo Domingo grew more and more ominous. By midweek it was clear that the bloody uprisings in the Dominican Republic had become the week's major story. Although the situation was confused, the editors decided that the cover subject should be the Dominican general who was most responsible for asking the U.S. to come...
From Dealer to Driver. The son of a Scottish immigrant, Reid was a Santo Domingo auto dealer with no political following-which may explain why he got the job. Once in office, he decided that the time had come "to act, not talk," if anyone was going to save the country from economic ruin and another dictatorship. To get room to operate, he accepted resignations from the other members of the triumvirate, filled one vacancy with a friend, left the other unfilled. To keep any one general from assuming too much power for too long, he set up a rotating...
...Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Council has elected the Following officers for 1965: Richard S. Friedman '66, president; Daniel P. Santo Pietro '66, vice-president; Harris L. Hartz '67, secretary; Margaret T. Bessin '66, treasurer...
...able to get the money in time for one of his pet projects-buying Florida. In the 41st Congress, Ulysses S. Grant had a 56-to-11 majority in the Senate, yet could not get his own party to support his desire to annex Santo Domingo. And Franklin Roosevelt's overwhelmingly Democratic 75th Congress (1937-38) turned on the President and killed many of his New Deal bills because F.D.R. had autocratically tried to pack the Supreme Court with liberals...
...poor government clerk, Togliatti now was building himself a villa among the rich near fashionable Porto Santo Stefano, and-politically-continued his do-gooder tactics. If filling-station attendants were underpaid, if a bridge fell down, if water was cut off from Rome, it was the Communists who led the protest. Faced with a milk shortage, Togliatti could be heard to say earnestly: "For a whole week now, there has not been enough milk in the cafes to make a cappuccino. That is terrible." He kept insisting that he had no intention of imposing Communism on Italy, that he only...