Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...befits a nation ruled through most of its 130 years by dictators, the transition was made with the aid of a crutch: a pre-election agreement among the major parties that whichever won would take the others into coalition government. At last week's celebration, televised from Caracas' White Palace, Betancourt, founding father of the Acción Democrática (A.D.), explained that "traditionally in Venezuelan politics the winners on reaching power enjoyed all rights and advantages, while the vanquished were left with only that curious form of political privilege known in Latin America...
...youngest brother of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and nominal President of the country; she is the daughter of onetime U.S. Marine Sergeant Charles McLaughlin, who stayed on after the 1916-24 occupation to become a colonel in Trujillo's army and president of the Dominican Airline. Last week, before 1,600 guests in white ties and formal gowns, in a wedding party that included the dictator as best man, Alma marched under an archway of swords and took Hector in marriage...
...fortnight ago Dictator Trujillo reversed himself on the marriage with a curt newspaper announcement just a week before the wedding. For society, the marriage creates a unique problem. Confusingly but officially, the Dominican Republic already has two First Ladies, old Dona Julia and the dictator's wife Maria. Now plump and pretty Alma McLaughlin becomes the third...
...Touhy's innocence of the wacky 1933 kidnaping of Swindler John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, a crime for which Touhy served 25 years of a 99-year stretch. The complaint against the book: it alleges that Factor committed wholesale perjury to railroad Touhy to the big house. Last week Jake the Barber, now a well-to-do Beverly Hills philanthropist, sued Pennington and seven other defendants for $3,000,000. Complaint: libel and invasion of privacy...
Soon after left-wing British Author J. B. Priestley and his archaeologist wife Jacquetta arrived in Australia last month for a ban-the-bomb peace conference, they decided that they did not like being Down Under at all. About to leave Australia last week, J.B. was still smarting about the reception they had received: "We were cold-shouldered and treated as if we were lepers." Why? "Political cowardice." Details: "I don't like the political atmosphere of Australia. It doesn't smell right to me. I am not a Communist. My wife is not a Communist. We have...