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Before 2,000 delegates of his obedient Dominican Party, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina announced last week that he would not seek a fifth term in next year's presidential election. But, he added, "my presence shall not be lacking in the solution of any fundamental problem." Dominicans knew what that meant: Generalissimo Trujillo, self-styled Benefactor of the Fatherland, would still be watching...
Whispers & Whips. The records of Rafael Trujillo's early years have disappeared-the dictator has seen to that. But tales are whispered. Dominicans say that young Rafael was a cattle rustler and a pimp, that at one time or another he was arrested for theft, forgery, rape. Intelligent and ambitious, he joined the constabulary set up by the occupying U.S. Marines, quickly rose to major. After the Marines departed (1924), he became head of the army. In 1930, he proclaimed himself a presidential candidate, used his soldiers to break up the opposition. He won handily...
Palencia began his straightforward observations of rural Spain as a child herding sheep on the arid plain of La Mancha, where Don Quixote started on his famous travels. At nine, Palencia's sketches of animals and lively peasant fiestas caught the eye of Don Rafael López Egoniz, a well-to-do Spanish engineer and art collector. He persuaded Benjamin's parents to let him take the youngster back to Madrid as his ward. There he set the boy to studying the great Spanish masters, but carefully kept him out of Madrid's traditionalist art schools...
Young Man's Fancy. In San Rafael, Calif., Mrs. Etta Waldorff, 50, accused her 91-year-old male boarder of chasing her around in his birthday suit until she finally had to put a lock on her bedroom door...
...following letter was written by Rafael M. Steinberg '50, a former editor of the CRIMSON, who is now a war correspondent with the international News Service in Korea...