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Last week in Mexico City, plainclothesmen in a black Buick glided up to Jaime Rosenberg as he walked along a street, and arrested him. Without success, they also sought Cruz Wer. Both were to be held for hearings to decide whether they should be extradited for trial in Guatemala, where the Supreme Military Tribunal has gathered more than 1,000 pages of testimony charging that Cruz Wer and Rosenberg were "archgenocides who cruelly ordered the massacres of innocent citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Cops in Asylum | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...Hobby. Old salts from Rodanthe, a nearby hamlet, inspected the wrecked ship the next morning, pronounced it a "probable total loss." Professional salvage companies agreed. But one interested onlooker, Esveld Canipe, Buick dealer from Havelock, N.C., was more optimistic. Landlubber "Nip" Canipe, 38, had been fascinated with the sea ever since he moved to Havelock twelve years ago from western North Carolina. A tinkerer all his life, he had read a book about the wrecks off Cape Hatteras, and recently had tried a little amateur salvage work on an old World War I hulk up the coast from Havelock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Rescue from the Graveyard | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...gunfire, police played hare & hounds with a 1954 green Oldsmobile. In it the cops claimed to have got a momentary view of Sánchez Arango, dapper in a white suit and sporting a brand-new mustache. Just as a patrol car closed in behind the Olds, an older Buick got in the way, neatly blocked the police out of play, and the Olds disappeared in a burst of speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Hairbreadth Escape | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...seventh place in the auto industry, has been rocketing ahead with its 1954 models, will probably nudge Plymouth out of fourth. Though Plymouth still leads in the four-month totals (138,996 v. 136,748), Olds outproduced it by 6,417 units in April, will probably be right behind Buick again in May, thus giving G.M. three of the four top makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...Buick-Berle Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). With Jack Palance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 26, 1954 | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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