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...charts-he recently signed a contract to develop new talent for Columbia Records. Guercio quit college "when John Kennedy died and the Beatles were born," went on the road with such groups as Chad & Jeremy and The Mothers of Invention. Like his idol, the late avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse, he is given to such pronouncements as, "A record is sound forever, not just a disk of plastic," and, "I'm desperately trying to wake the world...
Manuela was more than a colonel in the army of Simón Bolívar, who liberated the west coast of South America from the Spaniards early in the last century. She was also 'Bolívar's political fixer and counselor and, for eight years, his mistress (her husband finally divorced her). As this book makes clear, "La Sáenz," the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish nobleman and an Ecuadorian peasant girl, was a remarkable young woman. She raised money and equipment when the Liberator's armies were flagging, took over affairs of state...
Author Aguilera Malta, a noted Ecuadorian writer, was able to draw on the best possible source for this historical novel: Manuela herself. In addition to her other activities, she was the official archivist for Bolívar's army, and her records document much of the tragedy, trivia and triumph that accompanied the 14-year battle to drive the godos (Spaniards) out of Latin America...
Part of his reserve results from the language problem. He speaks fluent but heavily accented English (Harvard comes out Ar-VAR), and when his mind races ahead of his vocabulary, he has to throw in a French word and sculpt the idea with his hands. In private conversation, Lacouture listens with intense concentration, ignoring the steak before him; then leaning forward to hear, he pulls his Dick Tracy nose, and nods emphatically as he understands the point. A smile breaks easily and often across his narrow face, accentuating the deep wrinkles of a Chet Huntley. Girls find him lovable...
...Question of Patience. Letting go -either with all its force or through withdrawal-is clearly not the answer to America's Asian dilemma. No one relishes the risks involved in the var ious options available to the U.S. But to maintain its position in Southeast Asia, and ultimately perhaps in all Asia, the U.S. may sooner or later have to take the risk of war with China-care ful and calculated but still a risk. The U.S. held on to West Berlin and ejected Soviet missiles from Cuba only by a calculated risk of war with the Soviet Union...