Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marcos Perez Jimenez of Venezuela long refused to believe the overwhelming evidence that he is among the world's least popular Presidents. He even held a dangerously free election in 1952 and .had to stage a secret, red-faced recount when returns ran ten to one against him. But the lesson finally sank in. Last week-with the only possible opposition candidate safely tucked away in jail-Perez Jimenez brazenly turned the scheduled Dec. 15 presidential election into a me-or-nothing plebiscite, a forced vote of confidence in the "New National Ideal," its leader and his rubber-stamp...
...news at a luxury-lined private hospital where he was being treated for kidney trouble. It seemed to effect a miraculous cure. Jorge leaped out of bed and into his Mercedes-Benz, announced that the first thing he and his friends planned to do was board a plane for Venezuela to pay their respects to their old boss Perón. He regretted Kelly would not be with them. "Kelly's fate," he said, "has saddened us all, and I myself am prepared to do anything...
...concerned about the resurgence which began the fourth quarter of last year of a dollar gap for the first time since 1952. Though down from $600 million in the first quarter of 1957, the second-quarter U.S. surplus of $400 million (exclusive of a special $300 million payment to Venezuela) was still a heavy drain on foreign reserves. But Britain's Thorneycroft suggested a stronger remedy aimed to control U.S. inflation as well as help him at home. Said he: ''By importing more freely, you would both lower prices and at the same time sustain the reserves...
...London, the Daily Sketch reported that Princess Margaret would marry a faithful escort and bachelor-in-waiting, Billy Wallace, British-born stepson of U.S. Author Herbert Agar and heir to an iron-and-coal fortune. But Billy and Buckingham Palace denied the report. Meanwhile, down in Venezuela, a faithful escort of yesteryear, R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, was surprised by a photographer while at breakfast aboard a Japanese freighter in the port of La Guaira. After tossing a plateful of fried eggs and chips, rolls and jelly at the man, Townsend recovering his aplomb, said, tightlipped...
Arranging "an intimate party for some chums," Showman Mike Todd hired Madison Square Garden for the night of Oct. 17 to commemorate the first anniversary of the opening of his movie, Around the World in 80 Days. Arriving from such distant points as England, France and Venezuela, some 18,000 intimate chums will gather to help Mike celebrate...