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...President Juan Bosch was veering too far left, Dominican Republic military leaders turned him out last September. In his place, they set up what they considered a reliably docile civilian triumvirate too weak to do any harm-or any good. But when the junta went through its inevitable first shake-up last December, out went one of its members and in stepped Donald Reid Cabral, 40, a Santo Domingo auto dealer and the frail (5 ft. 6 in., 132 Ibs.) but strong-willed son of a Scots banker. Since then, Reid has clearly become more equal than the others...
...Couve de Murville pleaded Spain's cause logically and eloquently. Spanish diplomats had tried using the engagement of Spain's Prince Carlos and The Netherlands' Princess Irene, as well as the Spanish birth of Belgium's Queen Fabiola, to woo the Low Countries. Nothing could shake the bitter Socialist Francophobes of Belgium and Italy. "The Belgian government can never accept this Spain," snapped Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, though he did not exclude bilateral trade agreements with Common Market nations. Italy's Ambassador Antonio Venturini made it plain that his government's apertura...
...superexclusive Annabel's in Berkeley Square, where Guardsmen, debutantes and top-drawer jet-setters can order an excellent full-course dinner as late as 3 a.m., to the come-one-come-all Crazy Elephant in Jermyn Street, where the beat is blue, the mood frenetic, and the Shake is the thing...
...thing about Cassius Clay. He is a man of his word. "I'm gonna shake up this town," said the world's heavy weight champion last week...
Wary of the old red herring of "outside agitation," Negro groups traditionally have been careful to class their few Northern volunteers as "helpers" and not "instigators." The 1964 plan however, calls for an invasion of "over 1000 Peace-Corps-type volunteers," in order to "shake Mississippi out of the Middle Ages...