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Topic A in Guatemala City last week was the $25,000 check that an importing firm had issued to the nation's President. When the news broke a fortnight ago that Carlos Castillo Armas had deposited the check to his bank account, he promptly volunteered a calm and reasonable explanation: the $25,000 represented nothing more sinister than the repayment of a personal loan to an old friend, Mario Bolanos García, head of Comercial Guatemalteca. But the explanation left some king-size questions: Why was a personal loan repaid with a check on Comercial Guatemalteca, instead...
...fortnight ago a court issued a warrant for Bolanos' arrest on a charge that Comercial Guatemalteca had failed to live up to its contract to deliver 5,000 metric tons of corn to a government agency (apparently it was more profitable to sell available corn to private dealers). But last week the warrant had not been served, Bolanos was at liberty, and Comercial Guatemalteca was still in business. The government even granted the firm a license to import 4,000 metric tons of frijoles (black beans), now selling at scarcity prices in Guatemala, and 100,000 sacks of cement...
First victims of the new press policy were Colombia's Liberal opposition papers, which were ordered a fortnight ago to submit all copy to army censors be fore publication. When one paper went to press with blank spaces marked "censored" where stories had been killed, troops confiscated 15,000 copies. A few days later, censorship was extended to pro-government newspapers as well. Then, last week, the government shut down en tirely the country's leading Liberal paper, El Tiempo* Reason: El Tiempo's Editor Roberto Garcia-Pena had rejected an army order to print...
...gilded gambling resort in Las Vegas, shy, poker-faced TV Comic Wally (Mr. Peepers) Cox was dealt out of an 11,000-a-week hand for the second time in less than a fortnight (TIME, July 25). Reason: he again failed to draw a full house. After first firing Cox because his act, a medley of warmed-over Peeperisms, left the patrons cold, the Dunes Hotel rehired him three days later on his promise that he would whip up a scintillating potpourri of brand-new Peeperisms. But on his second chance, Funnyman Cox chiefly tried for laughs in a masochistic...
...Gordon Evans Dean, 49, onetime chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (1950-53) became "vice president-nuclear energy" at General Dynamics. His job: to run the corporation's $1,000,000 nuclear research and engineering program announced a fortnight...