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Trujillo and the Reds have played pata-cake before. In the postwar flush of good will toward Moscow, the dictator praised Russia "as one of the forces for progress," and legalized Communists as "eloquent rebuttal to calumniators who accuse the Dominican Republic of not being a democratic country." That honeymoon with the Reds lasted less than a year, after which Trujillo turned about once more, again banned the Communists and even set up an investigating Committee on Un-Dominican Activities...
...cards.) And probably the easiest count took place at the White House, where the head of the household informed the census taker that the place was regularly occupied (not owned or rented) by himself, his wife and her maid (all white), and that the house has running water, a flush toilet, and 132 rooms...
Despite a slight flush of embarrassment, Yale's School of Medicine was in the clear: its bureau of purchases had bought the dogs believing them to be genuine unclaimed strays. And the school will continue to get as many as it needs, from wardens elsewhere in the state. The question as to who could now get elected dogcatcher in the towns around New Haven is academic. In Connecticut, nobody is elected; each town's first selectman (equivalent to mayor) fills the office by appointment...
Drive One, Work Two. The trailers, fitted with kitchen, shower, radio, window screens, flush toilet, are as comfortable as Miami bungalows. But the life is not. On the very first day out of Cape Town, one trailer landed in a ditch, and seven dropped out later. Along one rugged wasteland in southern Ethiopia the caravan lost 22 truck axles, and the passengers had to clear the trails themselves. ("Drive a mile," said one lady's diary, "work two hours on the road . . . Everyone very tired...
...escaped the stream of bullets pumped into the house by a 30-cal. machine gun set up in a general store 200 yards away. Finally, frustrated state police sent an urgent appeal to Governor David Lawrence, who approved use of a Walker bulldog tank manned by National Guardsmen to flush the killer. Rushed in by flatcar, the 25-ton tank lumbered to Chalk Hill, circled the bullet-pocked bungalow as police fired from the cover...