Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Dulles: "I would not say there is any general anti-American sentiment among the people of Venezuela." He ascribed the Caracas riot to the fact that "the police force maintained under Pedro Estrada [police chief under Perez Jimenez] had been virtually liquidated, and the subsitute police did not know how to cope with the mob." This was also the verdict of experts on the scene, appalled by the ease with which a crowd of several hundred rioters tied up the police. Dulles' statement was perfectly accurate; some touchy Venezuelans reacted, however, as though he were lamenting the liquidation...
...other Venezuelan politicians, many of whom are now back in their own country. Perez Jimenez stayed close to his floodlighted Miami Beach hideaway (TIME, April 21), broke his seclusion for the first time last week to blame Nixon's violent reception in Caracas on the Communists, and to say that it could never have happened under his regime. "The fact that I was in the U.S. at the time had nothing to do with it," he said. "If I had been in another country they would still have attacked...
...start a typical meal at his Philadelphia headquarters for some 125 followers: seven meats, two kinds of fish, ten vegetables, salad, desserts, coffee, milk and fruit juices. On the subject of halting H-bomb tests, he made his position clear: "I haven't had anything much to say about that because I believe that everything should be governed by the higher understanding as given or handed down from one state of consciousness to another...
...fresh idea or engage another of the panelists in controversy, and there is Mr. Smith, quick on the switch, shunting the discussion into more neutral territory. The result of Mr. Smith's tactful control of the situation is that no one on his program ever manages to say anything that will lead either his colleagues or the audience to considerations other than those already established in our enlightened culture...
Million-Dollar Accident. Dickie Kerr disagreed. He took the discouraged boy into his home, fed him and befriended him, and made a place for his pregnant wife. "I convinced him that he wasn't much of a pitcher anyway," says Kerr. "And as a hitter he was a natural. You might say Stan's was a million-dollar accident...