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Careers have been built on a lot less, but then Raquel started with a lot less. Daughter of a Bolivian engineer named Armand Tejada, Raquel moved to La Jolla, Calif., in 1944, when she was two. The proximity to Hollywood was not wasted on the skinny, ambitious child. At 15, she had a lead role in the local Mexican festival. After a little TV and some modeling, she decided, at 21, to make it in the movies...
Last week some 4.000 employees of the General Prison Corps gathered in Madrid to toast Jose Maria Herreros de Tejada. retiring after long service as director of Spanish jails. Defending his stewardship against "foreign" critics, Director Herreros proudly announced that in Spain today, "prisoners charged with crimes against the security of the state-otherwise known as political prisoners-who are sentenced, tried and detained, number only 683." About 90% of these prisoners "are held for Communist-type activities," he added, "and the other 10% are fellow travelers." Except for The Netherlands, boasted Herreros, Spain has the lowest per capita number...
...National Palace, 32-year-old Major Carlos Paz Tejada, army chief, strode into a cabinet meeting, told President Arévalo that the army had been forced to take over to keep order...
...Tejada clamped on a strict curfew and censorship, began confiscating all arms held by civilians. He also called in the strikers and got their agreement to go back. Happy conservatives rejoiced that a new order had been established, with Paz Tejada as the strong man. Now, they thought, the Communists whom Arévalo had been harboring in some government posts would be sacked, and candidates opposing Jacopo Arbenz would get a fair deal in this year's election...
...rejoicing was premature. By week's end, at least 40 opposition leaders had landed in jail, and General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, the leading conservative presidential candidate, found it expedient to go into hiding. "With civilians disarmed," said Paz Tejada smoothly, "the army will be in a very good position to guarantee free elections." Nothing had really changed. Paz Tejada, who owed his present job to ex-Defense Minister Arbenz, had delivered the army's support to its old boss when he most needed it. And Juan José Arévalo was still president, having survived the 28th...