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...girl he loved when they were both children died before she reached adulthood.* The plot devices through which he is brought back to religion are soapy and soporific; it is enough to mention that Lucanus pays a call at the imperial court in Rome, where the Empress Julia, rouge-breasted and panting, urges him to orgy. But at the last minute, Lucanus begs off. whereupon nasty old Emperor Tiberius realizes that he is the first decent man to show up in Rome for years and gives Lucanus a dandy ring...
That was too much even for Ydígoras supporters, who elected the crusty old soldier last year with a clear awareness that his regime would have stormy moments. While backing the President in his tilt with Mexico, Guatemalans united against Cousin Julia Quiñones Ydígoras...
...wife and mother in her youth, Cousin Julia switched to male attire and a career as a political goon for Dictator Jorge Ubico (1931-44). To terrorize the opposition, she backed her broad fist with a muscled 240 Lbs. on a 6-ft. frame. In 1957, when Ydígoras made his turbulent campaign for the presidency, Cousin Julia led his street-demonstration gangs. With his victory, she hit the big time. In dinner jacket, she turned up at diplomatic functions with her attractive, fur-clad roommate, Carmen Gandara, 26. Julia first got a job bossing all public purchases, then...
...President was surprised. He had only wanted to reward a blood relative, as he had done in naming his brother Alvaro as head of the government land office, his niece Soledad Ydígoras as chief of procurement for school supplies, and Julia's son Boris as assistant secretary to the President. But Ydígoras switched sides abruptly and grabbed Julia's resignation, announcing that he was heeding "opinions widely held by educational groups." Darkly, Julia declared that "Communists and Mexicans" were against her, announced that "I am no longer to be called Ydígoras...
Meanwhile, the Maria Julia pulled alongside the trawler Lifeguard with another boarding party ready to leap. But as the two ships tossed and rolled, the Icelandic boat was holed above the waterline by the Lifeguard's hull, and her boarders beaten back by a flourish of British boathooks and axes backed up by the threat of fire hoses primed with steaming water from the Lifeguard's boilers...