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...Snows taught at the University of California's Berkeley campus; they had to find a school for him, and "he would have hated to cool his heels in an ordinary American school." What she delightedly found, reported Novelist Johnson, was "a very odd school indeed." It was San Rafael's booming 3R school, and odd was the word. How can a school that uses the antique McGuffey Readers be booming...
...annual U.S. dole to balance its budget and whose ragged peasants still exist on a per capita income of less than $100, lowest in the hemisphere. But he has obviously learned a great deal about how to stay in power from his neighbor, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo...
Since the day 14 months ago when they signed a pastoral letter calling for "freedom of conscience, press and assembly," Dictator Rafael Trujillo has spared no effort to beat the Roman Catholic bishops of the Dominican Republic into submissive silence. Two months ago, dismayed by personal threats and public incitement against the church, the Dominican bishops informed Trujillo that they wished "to continue cooperating." As a token of capitulation, the dictator demanded the title "Benefactor of the Church," a distinction last conferred on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa...
...Seventh Day. On the morning of his seventh day at sea, Rafael suddenly saw a slick, 30-ft. Chris Craft shoot past. Though Rafael did not know it, the Gulf Stream had borne him north to within three miles of Miami Beach. Minutes later, the Coast Guard cutter Papaw bore down upon him, responding to a radio message from the Chris Craft...
Last week, abed in Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, Rafael had little more than bad sunburn and dehydration to show for his ordeal. His nurse was earnestly trying to teach him English, but so far, his vocabulary was largely confined to one word, which for him clearly summed up his present condition and future prospects. "Okay," said Rafael Saavedra over and over again. "Okay...