Word: jimenez
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...Venezuelan official dropped by a small automobile-body shop outside Manhattan one morning last week to inspect a package for home: a $9,000 midnight-blue 1957 Cadillac, equipped with $21,000 worth of special accessories for President Marcos Perez Jimenez. At the push of a button, the 'two leather-upholstered chairs buzz back into a lounging position. In the rear of the front seat are a 17-inch television set, a high-fidelity tape recorder, and a small bar (four glasses, two bottles). A telephone system will permit the President to talk to his aide up front without...
...Perez Jimenez bought a similar car last year, but apparently grew tired of it. When the new one arrives, he will give the old one to his wife...
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...
Voters will draw two cards of different colors or shapes. Supporters of Perez Jimenez will drop the affirmative card into the ballot box and leave the booth conspicuously exhibiting the negative card. Leaving the booth without this card in hand will take more nerve than the average citizen is likely to show. It was clear that the ayes would have it, thereby electing Perez Jimenez and his Congress for another five-year term. But just to make sure, the President banned all political meetings, leaflets, emblems, posters, buttons, loudspeakers or speeches...
...strong likes and dislikes. He loves gardens and animals; he" detests noise, the letter G (in his poems he always uses J instead) and most modern Spanish-language poetry, especially the work of Chile's Communist-lining Pablo Neruda. His favorite poet, Jimenez once said, is God. Jimenez' own poetry is lyrical, impressionistic, polished, nonpolitical. Because of the translation barrier, he is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, but within it he is widely regarded as the language's greatest living poet...