Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emergency," said Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman last week, "we will buy it. We cannot stick to principles; if we did, Hor Lung should really be hanged." Instead of hangings, the terrorists have the offer of substantial rewards for surrendering, and for going back into the jungle to spot other guerrillas. So far, the government has paid out $165,000 in such rewards, chicken feed beside the peak $87,600,000 that the British spent one year fighting the guerrillas. Even Hor Lung had apparently found a little bribery-rumored to be $50,000-irresistible. "He is." admitted...
...Proclaiming themselves as "defenders of the working class," they seized half a dozen buses and proceeded to the Zócalo, Mexico City's central square, currently being repaved. There the students demonstrated their proletarian solidarity: they played dodge-'em, bump-'em, hot-rodding the buses back and forth through wet cement, hooting, hollering, colliding...
...were all a big misunderstanding. When the rented plane's owner heard that it had gone down in Cuba, he asked Hormel what had happened. Hormel denied ever making the flight. He was in Alabama at the time, he said; someone must have stolen the plane while his back was turned. It may be tough to prove. In Havana last week, the word was that Flyer Hormel had left his passport in the splashed plane-and that the U.S. Navy found the document when it towed the plane ashore...
Lead & Solidarity. The all-out terror lasted two days. The government seemed to abdicate. No administration wants to appear anti-working class. Finally, a platoon of troops and cops ordered by Governor Ernesto P. Uruchurtu drove the marauders back to their campuses...
British Novelist Nevil Shute, 59, who moved out to Australia in 1950, was back in London to stimulate sales of a new novel, see old friends, change a few attitudes. Five years ago, In the Wet set him up, after a long career in fiction, as the empire's most promising angry middle-aged man. Jumping 30 years into the future, Shute's 17th novel described a commonwealth of flourishing dominions (where citizens' merits could earn them extra votes) fettered by a mired-in-Socialism United Kingdom that approximates "a home for incurables." A tired, aging Queen...