Word: arly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began shelling the capital's other two forts. A lucky hit on a powder magazine won the day spectacularly for Arbenz & friends. He and Colonel Francisco Javier Arana got a democratic constitution written and ran off a free election. It was won handily by Juan José Arévalo, a Guatemalan intellectual just back from exile in Argentina...
Reds & Riches. Arévalo's role, as it turned out, was to usher into dictator-ridden Guatemala such innovations as free speech, a free press, political parties and trade unions-in effect, to consolidate the revolution. Fighting off 29 plots and counterrevolutions, suspending constitutional liberties 13 times, Arévalo barely managed to hang on through six years. He never had time or energy to do much about his pet political theory, "Spiritual Socialism," a kind of fuzzy, nonmaterialistic revision of Communism...
...will step down as president and board chairman of Hamilton Watch Co. in mid-April. Luckey, a physicist by training, joined Hamilton in 1927, was vice president in charge of manufacturing when the directors tabbed him as president in 1952. Likely choice to succeed him: Executive Vice President Ar thur B. Sinkler...
...Willie took several drinks to brace himself for his work and then wove his way home with his mailbag still loaded. On arrival he jovially dumped 282 Christmas cards on the floor and directed his wife to open the envelopes and remove their contents. Even after Willie was ar rested, the Jackson Park postal station could do no more than ask the 282 mail-less taxpayers to come down and sort through the pile. Postal Inspector F. W. Baleiko, however, was surprised at the public outcry caused by Willie's lapse from grace. "Sometimes," he said wearily, "these substitute...
...went to work on the neighbors with a will. He clobbered the postman with a shovel, yelling "At last I have you, you witch!" He assaulted startled passersby with pitchfork and stave, crying "Witches! Devils!" and accusing them of blowing poisonous vapors into his barn. At last the authorities ar rested Farmer Bading and turned him over to a hospital for observation. Bading proceeded to pass his psychiatric tests with flying colors. Sane as a stoat, said the examining doctor; he just happens to believe in witches: "So do many other people." Last week Farmer Bading was back...