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...hoarse voice, wild and throbbing, screamed again and again: "Oh, free men, let everybody stay in his place." Through the babble of panic rising around him, he bellowed: "My blood is for you. My life is for you." With a roar the crowd seized and pummeled the would-be assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Eight Shots | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...Italy's Chamber of Deputies, cries of crook, assassin and Fascist come so often from the Communist benches that they no longer get a rise. Last week the tables were reversed, and the result was an uproar. A right-wing Christian Democrat named Giuseppe Togni, who has always supported the government, took the floor and said: "This government has not conducted a sufficiently energetic anti-Communist policy. Italy is not trusted abroad. It is considered defiled by Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man with the Facts | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...whose talent in another direction was undeniable: despite his luxurious way of life, he paid little income tax, and got away with it. Also involved was young (32) Jazz Pianist Piero Piccioni, son of the Foreign Minister. In a letter made public, one girl claimed that he was the "assassin" for Montagna's ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Test of Fire | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...never been reliably checked) grow to strapping manhood, Saudi Arabia's wily and sentimental old King Ibn Saud cherished a wish-to unite one of them with a daughter of his old friend and champion, Premier Riad El Solh of Lebanon. After El Solh fell before an assassin's gun (in 1951), Ibn Saud sent his boy Prince Sultan, 29, to offer sympathy and a small token of affection ($79,000 in cash) to the Lebanese Premier's widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Trinkets from Tola! | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...Assassin! Thief! Piece of excrement!" they cried, as the ex-President stalked into the terminal building. There he stripped to his shorts while inspectors carefully examined his grey suit and other belongings, mindful of the fact that Arbenz and his top henchmen drew $1,000,000 in cash from the government-operated Agrarian Bank a few days before he fell.* He watched stonily while marveling examiners counted out his wife's 42 pairs of shoes. Then, with daughter Leonora, 12, and son Jacobito, 7, his wife and 16 cronies, he took off into the night sky. It was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Midnight Exile | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

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