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By the dozens, the regime's opponents fled to asylum in foreign embassies; the Salvadorans had barely put 18 such guests on a departing airliner when twelve more showed up. Arbenz clamped on a state of emergency, drastically censored the press and cables. Secret police in black berets drifted...
When Mao Tse-tung's armies were overrunning China in 1946 and 1947, the value of the Chinese dollar plummeted overnight. In came a steady stream of cables asking, 'What do we price the magazine at today?' Originally, TIME in China cost 150 Chinese dollars (30? U.S...
Since the major constitutional guarantee, habeas corpus, had been no more than a poor joke for weeks in police-ridden Guatemala, the decree's biggest effect was on the opposition press. Cables were censored, chiefly for news of arrests and escapes into asylum; local papers-except the brashly Communist...
In 47 ft. of water off the coast of Louisiana last week, a strange-looking structure on ten giant steel "legs" hummed with activity. On its 203-ft.-long platform, propped 38 ft. above the water, lay all the tools, cables, pipe and machinery needed for oil drilling. In the...
Test Pilot Skeets Coleman started the Allison turboprop engine (5,500 h.p.), and the two counterrotating propellers roared like an indoor tornado. Climbing at about 2.5 ft. per second (a slow walk), the plane rose 60 ft. under perfect control. The restraining cables, hanging slack, were not necessary; Pilot Coleman...