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...secret-police dungeons, in spectacular "auto accidents" and incredible "suicides." Trujillo's avenging arm reached even to the U.S. in the famed 1956 kidnap-murder of Columbia University Lecturer Jesus de Galindez, a bitter Trujillo critic and onetime tutor of the dictator's children. The peak of his terror was reached one October night in 1937, when Trujillo issued instructions to eliminate Haitian squatters along the northwest border. Working nonstop for 36 hours, Trujillo's highly efficient army butchered a reported 15,000 men, women and children...
...plot was anything but innocent. A predatory poet has earned fame by secretly transcribing the rantings of a middle-aged widow, driven mad by the wedding-night death of her bridegroom 40 years earlier. For further inspiration, the poet sends two young lovers to their death on an Alpine peak, and as the curtain falls, he is reciting his latest opus: Elegy for Young Lovers. The tragicomic moral: death for art's sake...
...Walker flew it at 3,370 m.p.h., which is 296 m.p.h. faster than Major Robert White's flight last April 21. Only Russia's Spaceman Yuri Gagarin and the U.S.'s Alan Shepard have ever flown faster. As his ship nosed over, after reaching a peak altitude of 110,000 ft., Walker was weightless for almost a full minute...
...buildings that Harvard has planned, surely LeCorbusier's Visual Arts Center holds the most promise of great architectural achievement. The Center will be the first building erected in the United States by one of the finest architects of our time. Now, when Corbusier is at the peak of his powers as a planner and a designer, his contribution to the University architectural setting is eagerly awaited...
Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Last May's ascent by a European expedition of Mount Dhaulagiri, then the world's highest unclimbed peak...