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...unarmed schoolboys hurled stones at police lorries and civilian freedom fighters stood up to machine-gun fire, Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Péerez Jiménez toppled with a crash that rattled the Americas' few remaining strongmen. Struggling to avoid a similar end at the hands of mountain guerrillas who have been battling for his overthrow, Cuba's President Fulgencio Batista relaxed his grip on civil rights, prepared to set up what he hoped would be a well-controlled election. And Guatemala, following its second try at presidential elections in three months, hovered at the brink of violence...
...downfall of Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez last week drove home a lesson: prosperity is no substitute for liberty, and even the best-fed men will fight for freedom...
...under the mountain. With such elaborate pump-priming to ensure economic wellbeing, he felt safe in crushing political independence. Who would want to pay the hard price of freedom so long as the government provided full employment and full bellies? Such glib judgments were proved hollow last week as Venezuelan rebels faced Perez Jiménez' machine guns without flinching in the streets of Caracas...
...Venezuelan Dictator-President Marcos Pérez Jiménez scrambled desperately to snatch back some of his waning authority and prestige. Last week he broke up a new plot masterminded by his longtime chief of staff. General Rómulo Fernández. 45, and hustled the general off to exile. At the same time, he partially reversed the humiliating Cabinet shuffle forced on him when his fortunes were at low ebb a fortnight ago (TIME...
...year-old onetime plumber's helper, to Italy's midget-car giant, Fiat. It was Innocenti's second big challenge to Fiat. The first he won handily. He maneuvered Fiat out of its share of a joint Fiat-Innocenti contract to build a $342 million Venezuelan mine-to-mill steel complex on the Orinoco River to exploit a nearby mountain of high-grade (up to 60%) ore. Innocenti left Italy a year ago, planned to spend a few days looking into the Venezuelan prospects. The more he looked the better he liked what he saw; after five...