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Through thronged streets in Guatemala City last week rolled an open Chrysler carrying two men who looked astonishingly like President Carlos Castillo Armas and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon...
...President Jacobo Arbenz, lately in Swiss exile, got his lumps last week in a float depicting him skiing down the Alps clutching bags of gold lifted from the Guatemalan treasury. But this year's parade was the first since Castillo Armas took power, and the students naturally honored him as Target No. 1. One float kidded his anti-Communist revolution last June. A wolf decked out in hammers and sickles was stopped from devouring a Red Riding Hood named Guatemala by an ax blow from Uncle Sam. On the axhead: a picture of Castillo Armas. Another joshed his style...
...custom, Guatemalan Presidents must prove themselves good sports by giving generously to the Eastertide Strike fund. Castillo Armas' sporting contribution to get himself panned...
...touches the Mexican border. At present a 164-mile, $35 railway-flatcar haul bridges the gap. With $1,425,000 granted last October by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, construction is getting started to connect the loose ends. But Nixon, who wants to help anti-Communist President Carlos Castillo Armas with public works, backs a speedup (with $20 million to $30 million in U.S. aid) that will quickly close the gap and pave the rest of the highway-now mostly gravel-through that country...
Presidents & Peddlers. In each country he visited, Nixon called upon the chief of state-President-elect Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, Presidents Adolfo Ruiz Cortines in Mexico and Carlos Castillo Armas in Guatemala-to present a silver-framed picture of Ike and Mamie Eisenhower and to chat about affairs of state. But Nixon also shook hands with and talked to the common people he met at every turn-leather-palmed cane-field workers, ragged fruit peddlers, schoolkids, mothers with babes in arms. Unaccustomed to such free-and-easy mingling, the Latin government officials who escorted the Vice President around often seemed...