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...several weeks Dr. Wallace stood up well under the sleeplessness and endless questioning. In February he cracked. Night after night he screamed, while prison guards prodded him with bamboo poles to silence him. He grew more & more irrational. One night, after screaming for about an hour, he became quiet, and the Reds discovered that they could no longer hurt Dr. William Wallace. His body was hanging from a strip of blanket tied to the top of his cell door...
...academy, and when he died in 1940 left $100,000 to insure their proper display. Academy Director of Exhibits Cecil Tose, who did the taxidermy himself, directed the project. Prop Artist Velma Harris cut and painted the paper vegetation-and, incidentally, put to good use some African bamboo stalks that had been in the storeroom for 21 years. Two painstaking realists, Belmore Brown and Toshio Asaeda, did the background landscapes...
...months in office, Magsaysay has brought about great changes in the Philippines. First he rebuilt the army, until then a demoralized, politics-racked conglomeration that couldn't fight its way out of a bamboo hut with a howitzer. Then he went after the Huks, who were so strong at the time that they were thinking seriously of seizing Manila itself. Last week, with his newly respectable and respected 40,000-man army, and some 10,000 reinforcements from the R.O.T.C. and reserves, he underwrote an election which, for all the bloodshed, gave free voice to the popular will...
...Stand. Last week Holy Man Bhave, 57, reached New Delhi, took up his stand before a small grass and bamboo hut on the edge of the square cement platform on which Gandhi was cremated. Here five members of the government's planning commission, introduced by Nehru listened as Bhave argued for 1) village wells, instead of huge irrigation projects, 2) village industries, instead of mass factories, 3) increased grain production from small farms. After attending a meeting, India's ascetic President Rajendra Prasad announced that he had given his Bihar estate to Bhave. In the United Provinces, where...
Guevara Moreno appeals to Ecuador's 60?-a-day rice-mill laborers, the inflation-struck white-collar class, the rank & file of the army and the wretched unemployed living in the split-bamboo shacks hidden behind Guayaquil's impressive masonry waterfront buildings. Plaza's tolerant democracy, though it provides the free press and elections Guevara needs, is not enough for Guevara, who preaches: "We have in this country a minority in a magnificent situation and a majority in a desperate situation. And Plaza's government, it's for the minority, no?" He calls his followers...