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...Tender Little Bull. Caracas-born Simon ("The Liberator") Bolivar was the country's first military dictator; he said that "as long as our fellow citizens do not acquire the talents and virtues which distinguish our brothers to the north, a radical democratic system, far from being good for us, will bring ruin upon us." When he died in 1830, Bolivar left the country to a long line of strongmen. In 1908 Juan Vicente Gómez, "Tyrant of the Andes," began a 27-year reign. That same year, in the poverty-ridden town of Guatire, 40 miles from Caracas...
...Jack Andrus, the memories that come with middle age are like bad teeth: he counts the day good when they do not ache. Among the shooting pains: three marriages, the latest still intact but more testy than tender; an estranged college-age son who loathes him; a foreclosed career as a brilliant young cinemactor; the faces of friends who died in the Spanish Civil War or at the talent-poisoning wells of Hollywood. The anodynes are joyless-alcohol, sleeping pills, the humdrum routine of his NATO underling post in Paris, which is good work, he feels, but not greatly good...
...easy to draw that conclusion, but, oddly enough, many of Gamble Benedict's good friends, while admitting that the romance is a bit unwieldy at the moment, believe that it may be true love. Interestingly. Brother Douglas, 21, eloped a couple of years ago at a tender age-but Grammy had that match annulled promptly...
Four years ago, when John Foster Dulles abruptly withdrew a U.S. tender of a $56 million Aswan Dam loan, it looked as if the dam might never be built. But the Russians came through with a promise of about $10 million. That offer has survived Nasser's later disenchantment with the Soviets (he has, for example, quietly withdrawn many Egyptian students from Russian universities, is sending 500 to study in the U.S.). At the Aswan ceremonies, after duly thanking "the country that agreed to help us," Nasser grandly dismissed past "threats and economic pressures'' from the West...
...reflects the undying interest in the theater when a prime mover goes uninhibitedly candid; and Herman Wouk's This Is My God, while it surely owes much of its success to the fact that its author is a bestselling novelist, is nevertheless a competent and tender summary of the Jewish faith...