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...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, a child was born to a wholesale grocer's accountant and amateur poet named Luis Betancourt.* Pleased that his second child was a boy, the proud poet...
Little Rock's Police Chief Eugene Smith [Aug. 24] deserves a better description than "tough cop," and my hat is off to him and the Little Rock city fathers and citizenry who gave him support in fighting the powerful pressures of a rabid tyrant...
Life in the Shadow. The crack-up had come with unexpected fury, but Earl Long had been heading for it all his life. He was reared in the giant shadow of his brother Huey-the Kingfish, a Louisiana legend as living tyrant and assassinated martyr. Earl Long hated his place in Huey's shade. To prove himself a better man, he merely proved himself a wilder one. In his role as a man of the people, he casually cleaned between his toes at press conferences. As a political fighter, he once sank his teeth into an opponent...
Mustered in a hurry, the journalist army trained its eyes on the riotous color of Cuba in ferment. Rivers of copy surged onto the front pages, but the meaning of Cuba's sudden agony was left to deskbound editorial writers. They fired from the hip. Batista, the deposed tyrant, was condemned. Castro, the idealistic liberator, rated approving choruses, relieved only here and there by a suspicious question. In the next phase, as the tattoo of rebel firing squads stitched a new pattern on the face of Cuba, and the landscape was no longer boldly black and white, U.S. readers...
...turned past him several times, and each time the huge jury in the arena would gasp 'Oh!' " Not all experienced observers had such clear eyes. Glowed the Chicago Tribune's Dubois, who could not overcome his Castro partisanship and his relief at the fall of the tyrant, Batista: "I have just had the first exclusive post-victory interview with Fidel Castro. His words rang with a tone of unmistakable sincerity, and were pronounced with the idealism that produced his outstanding leadership...