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Most of his fast-paced little novel is set not in (or near) the centers of world power but in the underdeveloped and overpopulated Caribbean country of Santo Domingo. There Clay Loomis, a disaffected CIA agent turned soldier of fortune, serves as chief of security to the current dictator. His main job: trying to quell a guerrilla movement led by one RamÓn el Rojo. It is a loosing battle; before long RamÓn starts a Castro-type revolution that spreads through Santo Domingo like Asiatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...Third Man. During his testimony, Roselli not only talked freely about Giancana but also claimed that a third person took part in the anti-Castro plot: Santo Trafficante, now in his mid-60s, who has been identified as the Mafia chief in Florida. A man who abhors publicity even more than most of his colleagues, Trafficante took refuge for 18 months in Costa Rica to escape his notoriety. He returned to the U.S. shortly after Roselli talked to the Senate committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Deep Six for Johnny | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...accolades for the exemplary stoicism he displayed during the 120-day ordeal. A Rome constituency elected Fiat Industrial Aristocrat Umberto Agnelli to the Senate as a Christian Democrat, while the small Republican Party successfully fielded his sister Susanna Agnelli, a first-time Deputy who is also mayor of Porto Santo Stefano, a fashionable resort town on the Tuscan coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A Debut of Deputies | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Cynthia Gregory, 29, America's foremost prima ballerina, currently in voluntary exile; and John Hemminger, 34, formerly the manager of singer Tim Hardin; she for the second time, he for the first; in Santo Domingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 28, 1976 | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...contrast, the Olympic crew seem like wholly admirable free spirits - and the match is not a fair one. Joe Santo is a connoisseur of cut glass, an accomplished fiddle player and something of an out-of-pocket philosopher. "I don't believe in getting too comfortable," he tells Craig. "Stay hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Low Life | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

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