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...choice of Venezuela's men & women for president of the republic was Novelist Rómulo Gallegos, a founder in 1941 of Acción Democrática, which has controlled the government since the swift revolution of 1945. His victory over his nearest rival, 31-year-old Rafael Caldera, candidate of the conservative COPEI (Committee for Independent Political Organization), had been forecast from the start...
...many, the victory of 63-year-old Novelist Gallegos was not as significant as the orderly manner of his election. The government of Provisional President Romulo Betancourt, confident of Acción Democrática,'s strength, had taken pains to make the voting fair, and even the opposition was hard put to find grounds for charging fraud. Previous presidents had been chosen by Congress. Gallegos was elected by direct popular ballot, and every Venezuelan over 18 had the right to vote...
...campaign had been heated but clean-cut, with a minimum of mudslinging. Loser Caldera accused Acción Democrática of "exclusivism," and charged the government with Communist tendencies. (The Communist candidate ran a poor third.) Of Gallegos, he said: "Nobody doubts the sincerity of Gallegos and nobody believes in the sincerity of Acción Democrática...
...make it easier for the illiterate, the ballot of each party was a different color: white for Acción Democrática,, green for COPEI, brown for the tiny URD, red for the Communists, black for the dissident Miquelena Communists...
...newspaper-reading public was stimulated by a savory item on Fritz Mandl's latest marital difficulties. Mandl's third wife, Herta Schneider, sued for legal separation (divorce is outlawed in Argentina), charged Fritz dragged her around their swanky apartment by the hair. Scandal-loving Crítica plastered the story all over the paper, complete with cheesecake pictures of Hedy Lamarr, Mandl's second wife, recounted Mandl's efforts to suppress the film Ecstasy...