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...never needed. In San Cristobal, the Táchira National Guard remained loyal, and the high school students roamed the streets in defiance of Rebel Castro Leon; the best he could do was shoot the high school full of holes. He sent 130 men to capture nearby San Antonio Airfield, but instead the troops rejoined the government. He sent 180 more to take another airport at La Fria; 200 peasants armed by the Guard beat them...
...Washington last week was an apology to Castro. After a Florida-based Piper Comanche crashed on a bombing run over a central Cuban sugar mill, killing the two U.S. mercenaries aboard, Secretary Herter sent his "sincere regrets that the plane managed to escape the vigilance of our intensified airfield patrols." President Eisenhower gave the FBI authority for on-the-spot seizure of any suspicious arms caches that might be bound for the Caribbean. Castro used pieces of the plane as props in an irate TV speech, but did not charge that U.S. authorities knew about or consented to the clandestine...
...prevent Kishi's take-off for the U.S., and 700 of them seized the airport building the night before his departure last week, wrecked the restaurant and fought the police with bamboo spears and pepper shakers before they were ejected. Mobs of students lined the approaches to the airfield, prepared to stone Kishi's car or throw themselves under its wheels. But with radio guidance supplied by a hovering helicopter, Kishi's motorcade avoided what he called the "distasteful, insignificant demonstration," and he serenely took off for his meeting with President Eisenhower...
...China, are uncommitted in the cold war and wooed with aid from both the Soviets and the U.S. Even as Ike's plane winged over the mountains, an Afghan squadron of Russian-made MIGs took off to escort him toward Kabul, and Ike landed at an airfield built by Russians. There, in the freezing morning, khaki-clad King Mohammed Zahir greeted the President and his party...
...flat, twisting course laid out on an old military airfield near Sebring, Fla., the world's best drivers and fastest cars met last week in the first Grand Prix of the United States. The man to beat was a broad-faced Aussie named Jack Brabham, 33. A steady man with a mechanic's instinct for pushing his low-slung Cooper-Climax no harder than metal and rubber can stand, Brabham rose out of the ranks this year (TIME, Aug. 10) to take the lead in the world driving championship...