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...scored with their lighter, wittier, most Gallic productions, revealed Director-Actor-Pantomimist Barrault as one of the theater's most agile minds and bodies. Last week, again brought over by Impresario Sol Hurok, the Barrault troupe again promised a menu of both classics (Molière, Lope de Vega, Ben Jonson) and moderns (Salacrou, Giraudoux...
Falange Presidential Candidate Oscar Unzaga de la Vega charged that President Victor Paz Estenssoro's National Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.) had rigged election lists, confiscated Falange ballots and hindered the Falange campaign. Retorted the M.N.R. weekly Combate: Unzaga gave up simply because he realized he could not win. To be on the safe side, the government moved 3,000 militiamen into La Paz before election day, just in case the opposition tried to turn default into revolt...
...every Russian schoolboy knows, reflex conditioning was unknown until it was discovered by Russian Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936). El Capellán de la Virgen, a play about the life of Saint Ildefonso (606-667), Archbishop of Toledo, was written by the Spanish Dramatist Lope de Vega about...
Author Suárez' pessimistic fatalism is not calculated to win him wide readership in the U.S., although in Spain he has reaped a harvest of literary honors. He has won the Adonais Prize with a volume of poems, the Lope de Vega Prize with a play, and the Nadal Prize with The Final Hours, his first novel. U.S. readers will not have to share Prizewinner Suarez' gloomy attitude to respect his accomplishments as a novelist...
...Estenssoro himself took power in the revolution of April 1952, was over, except for the usual scramble to safety by the defeated. Fifteen succeeded in getting to airfields, where they commandeered three planes and flew off to Peru and Chile. The revolt's leader. Oscar Unzaga de la Vega, dramatically appeared two days later clawing his way up a river bank behind the Uruguayan embassy for a successful dash to asylum inside. Another leader, in a hospital with wounds, dodged his guards one night, leaped from his second floor window and landed safely in the garden of the French...