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Blood on the Bridge. The boy was Burywaise Elwin, a 17-year-old Honduran, and the only one of an eight-man crew left alive on board after a fury of politics, mutiny and murder. Elwin told the Coast Guardsmen that the Seven Seas was a banana trader on her way from Miami to Tampa. Shortly after 10 o'clock the night before, he left the hot crew quarters aft to get some air. As he was leaving, he passed Cuban Crewman Roberto Ramírez, 35, who seemed in a big hurry. "I heard a shot and turned...
...readiness abounds: barbed wire festoons the pink and yellow fronts of government office buildings; militiamen stalk the streets with fixed bayonets and grenades at their belts; as part of the effort to deceive U.S. pilots, bicycle handlebars and wheel rims are painted camouflage green, and farmers wear banana branches in their hats. Even pigs on the way to market are artfully shrouded in leaf-bedecked nets. Reportedly, more than 300,000 women and children have been evacuated from Hanoi in preparation for aerial attack, but after seeing the bombed-out bridges downcountry, many have filtered back into Hanoi, which they...
...disappointing double debut as a scenarist and second banana, Nightclub Comedian Woody Allen has written a small flat role for himself and fleshed it out with perhaps a dozen workable gags. The rest of the dialogue is doggedly juvenile, so Director Clive Donner whips it into a frenzy, rummaging eclectically through a whole range of comedy styles, like a man tying tin cans to the tale of an old torn...
...change in command at a college can sometimes be as rough as a switch of leaders in a banana republic. Last week two campuses were in turmoil because trustees named new presidents over the heads of favorite local candidates, and on a third campus a departing president philosophized about the perils of prolonged leadership...
...capital. The junta declared martial law, sent in troops to end the strike, and packed some 70 people off to jail, including two key air force officers who apparently sided with the civilians. The situation is not likely to be eased by forecasts of a 40% drop in 1965 banana exports because of increased Central American and Asian competition...