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Reserves were called up, army troops swarmed the city, road blocks were erected and a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew declared. But Guatemala-for the time, at least -remained calm. At the National Palace, where the dead President lay in state, military-academy cadets stood guard while a three-block line of mourners filed past. President Eisenhower, who received Castillo Armas in the hospital in Denver and renewed the acquaintance while visiting Panama, called the death "a great loss to his own nation and to the entire free world. President Castillo Armas was a personal friend of mine...
...ballplayers' parents were a little uneasy; their kids had not yet come home from the game. For a pair of twelve-year-old Little Leaguers, this was violating curfew with a vengeance. When a phone call to league headquarters brought word that the Allentown (Pa.) Jets were not even scheduled to play that evening, the parents began to worry for fair. Then the truants arrived in a taxi. The parents demanded an immediate explanation. In a town that takes its Little Leagues seriously (the Mountainville League that the Jets belong to has a total of 270 players...
...Taipei the strict military curfew ended, but a substratum of anger and resentment lingered on both sides, after Formosa's anti-American rioting (TIME, June 3). Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek called it "one of the most shocking and regrettable things to have happened in my 50 years of public life...
Flustered Nationalist officials, obviously unprepared for the outburst, finally called out troops. From his mountain retreat at Sun Moon Lake in central Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sped north to Taipei, called out a total of 33,000 troops, placed Taipei under martial law, imposed strict curfew regulations. Total estimated casualties: at least two Chinese killed, nine Americans injured, one seriously...
Jordan's all-night curfew was lifted last week for a macabre purpose-to permit citizens to witness and draw the moral from the hanging of three Jordanian National Guardsmen and a street vendor...