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...plaint that Washington was guilty of "overreaction." The most cogent and authoritative account of the affair, Overtaken by Events (Doubleday), was published last week, adding significant ly to history's vindication of President Johnson's action. Its author: John Bartlow Martin, 51, U.S. ambassador to Santo Domingo from 1962 to 1964, and, as Johnson's special envoy, one of the key American officials in the Dominican capital during last year's civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Verdict on Santo Domingo | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...restaurant out in Queens, when New York's finest burst into the joint to bust up what the Queens D.A. called a meeting even "bigger than Apalachin" of top Cosa Nostra hoodlums from New York, Florida and Louisiana. It did look like a summit at that: Santo ("Louis Santos") Trafficante, 51, boss of Cuba's pre-Castro gambling, Thomas ("Tommy Ryan") Eboli, 55, running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 7, 1966 | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

Above Control. The Dominican military, which long considered itself above civilian control, last week felt the touch of Balaguer's authority. The military man in question was Brigadier General Elias Wessin y Wessin, whose elite troops had initially turned back the rebels in Santo Domingo, but whose continued presence had so disrupted peace negotiations that the U.S. hustled him out of the country last September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: Success--So Far | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...Secret of Santo Vittoria (Simon & Schuster) by Robert Crichton, 41, a World War II combat veteran, is very likely the funniest war novel since Mister Roberts. The Troy of his hilarious Iliad is a wine-producing village in southern Italy, a town so poor in everything, including fertilizer, that its inhabitants stalk oxen with a broom and a pan. The Hector of the tale is the village mayor, a paisano whose native cunning has been reinforced by the study of Machiavelli. The Agamemnon of the story is a German captain assigned to rob the village of its only precious possession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The First Novelists: Skilled, Satirical, Searching | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...from the Center have been working under the auspices of the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies with the schools in the zone around Santo Tome de Guayana, Venezuela; and it is likely that at least one of the new projects will be conducted in that area. It is rumored that Davis, now in Venezuela, will negotiate some agreement concerning the study with the country's government before returning here...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Ford Funds Major Study Of S. American Education | 8/9/1966 | See Source »

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