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...more than a week, Guatemalan anti-Communists had been mysteriously disappearing into jail, scrambling to asylum in embassies, hopping over the border. Was there a rebellious plot afoot? Not at all, said the Red-wired government soothingly. Then, at the end of last week, the government swung all the way around, announced that a fearsome plot had indeed been uncovered, and issued a 5,000-word white paper to tell all about...
...death. Allen managed to get loose after Folk had gone, got his pistol, gave chase, and shot and wounded the killer. Folk is a paretic who was declared insane in New Mexico after beating and raping a 17-year-old girl in 1949, but was released from a state asylum after only a few months...
Just think, when I was still a Jesuit, my colleagues wanted to put me in an insane asylum...
...Asylum in B.V.D.'s. The revolt, the sixth attempt since Paz Estenssoro himself took power in the revolution of April 1952, was over, except for the usual scramble to safety by the defeated. Fifteen succeeded in getting to airfields, where they commandeered three planes and flew off to Peru and Chile. The revolt's leader. Oscar Unzaga de la Vega, dramatically appeared two days later clawing his way up a river bank behind the Uruguayan embassy for a successful dash to asylum inside. Another leader, in a hospital with wounds, dodged his guards one night, leaped from...
Soon after the Nazis came to power, Lipmann decided that Germany was no place for him; a year's research assignment in Copenhagen stretched to seven years before he sought safer asylum in the U.S. In Boston, he became Harvard's professor of biological chemistry and head of a research laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital. Krebs was summarily fired from his university post by the Nazis; fortunately he was invited to Cambridge University, where he arrived "with virtually nothing but a sigh of relief and a few books." Later he moved to Sheffield as professor of biochemistry...