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...banana peel on the blue ocean swell of the Caribbean. The democratic Equatori-ans are engaged in their annual ritual revolution, and two local swindlers named Lopez and Pardo dread the rising "reform" dictator. Lopez mulcts tourists and gets a kickback from the police. This pair of wily thugs equip shifts of demonstrators to parade before the U.S. embassy with slogans suggesting that the latest revolutionary coup is a Communist takeover. The hoax works. Soon U.S. planes are flying the Equatorian "Freedom Fighters" to Washington. The fact that the "resistance heroes" consist mainly of Lopez, Pardo and nightclub floozies scarcely...
Designed to test the concept of a "remote" defense of the Canal Zone, under which outside troops are rushed in to counter surprise attack, the maneuver showed that Latin America has used its $493 million in U.S. military aid since 1950 to train and equip at least the beginnings of a tough, expert force that can move fast. The performance of the Latin soldiers and flyers was uniformly good, and the Brazilians were so impressive that 82nd Airborne officers talked of picking up some of their techniques. This week, the U.S. will top off Operation Banyan with "Operation Big Slam...
...washer, called the Aseptic Air System, is relatively inexpensive. Its inventors, a physicist and a well-to-do gadgeteer, can equip the average 1,000-sq.-ft. operating room for as little...
...getting MATS out of the hair of the private airlines, Monroney figured Congress will re-equip it, okay development of a new U.S. cargo plane jointly sponsored by the Government and private airframe manufacturers. Says he: "I don't care whether it's pure jet or turbine propeller. In the kind of brush war businesses that may be ahead, we want a large capacity aircraft that will operate in and out of short fields." Such a cargo plane would be equally useful to commercial carriers. But Congress would not okay appropriations for such a plane until MATS...
...property, Hawaii is in no position to step up its production to benefit. So, last week, Hawaii's leading sugar company, American Factors, Ltd., announced a plan that it hopes will help it break out of its box. It set up a new organization called Sugar International* to equip other countries with a Hawaiian-style sugar industry...