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...Trujillo as Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo calls his 24-year tyranny over the Dominican Republic, no chum has been closer, no tool more useful than Secretary of State Without Portfolio Anselmo Paulino Alvarez. Whenever islanders talk of the terroristic carro de la muerte (death car) that disposed of the regime's earlier enemies, or the later massacre of 15,000 immigrant Haitian sugar-cane cutters, Paulino's name comes up. In payment for such chores Trujillo let Paulino wrap his blimplike belly in the uniform of an honorary major general and play the role of Despot...
...brusque official decrees that cut Paulino down were shock enough for the readers of Trujillo's house-organ daily, El Caribe, which always before had only lavish praise (Paulino had been the paper's publisher). Going on from there in editorials El Caribe gave some details on just how the "truculent, ambitious and aggressive ex-functionary," the "bad collaborator of the Chief," had come to grief...
While the boss was in Spain on a recent state visit, it appeared, Paulino had undertaken to further his ambitions by "sowing discord" to "divide and conquer" the armed forces. Item: Paulino humiliated a Trujillo favorite, Rear Admiral Lajaro Burgos, "calling him by the name of Napoleon, and not by his own true name." Explained El Caribe: "Assuming that Communism works by fomenting hate, stimulating the instincts of revenge and of conflict between individuals ... it has to be said that the policies to which Señor Anselmo Paulino Alvarez has been so boldly and poisonously dedicating himself are policies...
...that they thought both wise and well. They memorialized their folkways in ceramics, shaped like pots and flagons and called huacos. Last week Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, U.S. sachem of scientific sex studies, popped up among the huacos in the famed Rafael Larco Herrera Museum at Hacienda Chiclin, near Trujillo, still Pursuing his researches into the ways of love through the ages...
Change Partners. In Albuquerque, Ida Gutierrez Trujillo, mother of eight, filed a $15,000 alienation-of-affections suit against Dance Teacher Elsie Ryan Trujillo, charged that Elsie stole the love of Acquiles Trujillo by her demonstrations of the "hula-hula, hoochy-coochy, mambo and samba...