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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Concluding the confrontation-No. 898 by his count-the President allowed for good measure: "I will continue seeing the press, at different times, different places and different ways-at my own choosing." Which, save for the statistics, left the score almost exactly where...
Girl copywriters had better bank the price of admission, save up plane fare, and go see Angkor...
...large Soviet spaceships such as the three-man Voskhod I were capable of many more actions than they had accomplished. Because of the lack of a big booster to launch them, U.S. man-carrying capsules, including Gemini, are comparatively light and have to be pared to the bone to save fractions of ounces. The Voskhods are roomy, and Soviet designers make the most of their space...
Thus this action melodrama, based on an actual incident, pretends to concern itself with a moral problem: whether to save the masterworks or spare the men. It must have seemed a dull question to Director John Frankenheimer, who simply shunts morality onnto a siding and concentrates on the conflict between a fanatic villain and an athletic hero, playing tug of war with real trains. The results are exhilarating, but only in a muscular...