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According to Rondon, his trainer, Sase Betancourt, gave him a "strange pill" and sugared brandy shortly before the fight began. "I had to be awakened for the weigh-in." Rondon said, Observers described him as frightened when he entered the ring with foster...
...Pepe" Figueres-sometimes called El Enano (the dwarf) because he stands only 5 ft. 3 in.-is the grand old man of Latin America's democratic left. In the small band of democratic reformers (including Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt. the Dominican Republic's Juan Bosch, Peru's Raul Haya de la Torre) who only recently seemed to be Latin America's best hope for nonviolent change, he remains one of the few effective survivors...
Enhanced by Bill Cosby's performance as host, the hour-long Children's Theater special concentrated on segments of the film shot by ten fledgling cameramen, aged 5½ to 12. In the best sequence, Eddie Betancourt, the 12-year-old son of a farm worker, created a haunting atmosphere by juxtaposing scenes of living and dead birds encountered on his photographic tour. Christopher Merry, a disarming six-year-old from Los Angeles, used both his own drawings and shots of lush foliage to make a delightful film about an imaginary island he would some day like...
Married. Rómulo Betancourt, 60, former President of Venezuela (1959-64) and still its most powerful politician; and Child Psychologist Renee Hartman Viso, 44, his longtime friend; both for the second time; in Bern, Switzerland...
Venezuela's former President Rómulo Betancourt, 59, flew home from Europe for the first time in four years to try to patch up his splintered Acción Democrática party. The visit was a brief one, though, for there was another party back in Switzerland awaiting Betancourt's ministrations. That would be Renee Hartman Viso, 44, soon to become his wife. Betancourt disclosed that he had divorced his first wife, Costa Rican-born Carmen Valverde, to be free to marry Renee. But his absence during the long divorce proceedings, some Venezuelans believe, may cost...