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Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63 of Kirkland House won the $75 first prize in an Adams House Drama Society contest for his play The Better Angel. George D. Kelly '63 of Eliot House took second prize ($50) for a movie script, The Ape's Tragedy...
...that time, Otilio Ulate, a conservative newspaper publisher, was a clear winner in the presidential elections. In second place was Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia. an ex-President (1940-44) who still controlled the lame-duck Congress and got the election overturned as "fraudulent." Not until Ulate's campaign manager, a fiery, reform-minded planter named José ("Pepe") Figueres, rose in revolt and won a bloody, five-week civil war was Ulate able to take office. Figueres was elected President in his own right in 1953, went on to become the nation's most prominent political...
Rusk entrusted the delicate task of talking a little firmness into the "soft six" to Argentine Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Cárcano. The Argentine at one point got President Arturo Frondizi to telephone Brazilian President João ("Jango") Goulart from Buenos Aires to plead for modification of Brazil's rigid hands-off-Cuba position. The U.S. had high hopes that Chile would come around; instead, it turned down every plea. Nothing worked, and at the end, although sympathetic with the majority cause himself, Cárcano was forbidden to cast Argentina's "big" vote with...
...title figure and unlikely hero of Bloomfield's parable is a maker and seller of pornographic books and pictures, whose name is Samuels, or perhaps Samson, as is noted in files of the London police. The uncertainty reflects the book's focal paradox: Sammael is the angel of death, but Samson, as the author explains (stoutly refusing to allow himself the joys of obscurantism) means "of the sun, solar." The bookseller is subverter, protector, panderer and priest to a group of curious cripples-Julius, his bloodless, asexual young assistant; Louise, a housewife whose husband thinks...
...narration is introduced by a stilted device: the narrator is the guardian angel (or conscience) of the woman, and he chats with her like a second-rate Whitman. The woman herself, Barbara Boxley, is a good actress, but her role is so uneven and inconsistent that she cannot make much...