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...rolled up to Tegucigalpa's central Prado Hotel on election day last week and glowered at a jeering crowd of demonstrators from the Liberal Party, main opposition to the government of Chief of State Julio Lozano. From behind, some barefoot kids stole up and pelted the policemen with banana and orange peels. Furious, the squad's commander pulled out a pistol and fired into the crowd. A woman screamed. The rest of the cops opened up, mostly firing wild. One man was killed, nine persons wounded...
...engine of his Bluebird speedboat whining at a frightening pitch, Donald Campbell streaked over Coniston Water, a banana-shaped sliver of England's Lake District, at 286 m.p.h., dropped to a modest clip on the return run, but averaged 225.63 m.p.h., to break his own world's record of 216.02 m.p.h. set last November at Lake Mead...
...this is far too late; babies under his care have a spoon of thin oatmeal or barley when they are but two days old. At ten days vegetables are added; at 14 days, strained meats; at 17 days, strained fruits; at weekly intervals thereafter, orange juice, eggs, soups, mashed banana, custard puddings and "crisp bacon" (though the bacon has to be mashed with a fork...
...from big landlords under the 1952 land-reform program has been returned and the peasant occupants dispossessed. Trade unions, smashed in the revolution, have been allowed only a slight comeback. A dozen police organizations use third-degree methods with as much gusto as the Communists ever did. Old-fashioned banana-republic corruption taints the government clear...
Married. Audrey Meadows, 31, red-haired stage actress (Top Banana), long-suffering TV wife of Comedian Jackie ("The Honeymooners") Gleason; and Randolph Rouse, 37, Washington realtor; both for the first time; in Manhattan...