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...Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, with President Truman's protégé-pianist, Eugene List, as soloist (TIME, April 22). Bernstein led the orchestra through a rousing performance of his own apocalyptic Jeremiah Symphony. After concerts, Bernstein played the piano for Czech Philharmonic's conductor Rafael Kubelik and his violinist wife, updating them on the latest versions of Honky-Tonk Train and Empty Bed Blues...
...chief of P.R.I., Mexico's largest party, had an idea: the heroes of the Mexican Revolution, though dead, might be made to contribute to national unity and, incidentally, to P.R.I, prestige. Dr. Rafael Pascacio Gamboa's suggestion: disinter the bodies of Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Alvaro ObregÓn, rebury them with full and traditional pomp in a crypt beneath the Monument to the Revolution...
Wines & Silver. The war cut the Latin republics from their normal source of manufactured goods, taught them to trade among themselves. In shop windows along Havana's Calle San Rafael appeared Mexican silver, Argentine pocketbooks, Chilean wines. Today, Argentina's chief supplier is no longer Britain but Brazil. Three Chilean companies now export more bananas from Ecuador to Chile than United Fruit ships...
...paid his way with charm. As Ambassador to the U.S.. his easy style of living almost got him into trouble. When his Government sent him $60,000 for arms purchases, he squandered $35,000 before a gun was bought, was saved only by a check from Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo...
...Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and Dictator of the Dominican Republic, is an example of a waning Latin American type-the caudillo (chieftain). As a blend of the Emperor Jones and the European authoritarians, Dictator Trujillo and his ilk always seem bizarre to North Americans. But the southern dictators must be understood if Latin America is to be understood by the big neighbor in the North...