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...used the bandwagon theme: Republicans everywhere want Taft; Taft is ahead; Taft can't lose. The purpose of this tried but not necessarily true strategy is to influence delegates who want, above all, to be riding the winning horse. Last week, with the Republican Convention only a fortnight away, Taft & Co. were playing the confidence theme like a name band at sign-off time, trilling the high notes and thundering the lows...
...fortnight ago, unidentified saboteurs bunglingly attempted to dynamite Guatemalan power plants. A few days later, three plainclothesmen from the civil guard knocked on the door of the Quiñónez house in Guatemala City. After searching the place from attic to cellar, they asked Mario, 24, and his brother Edgar, 20, to go with them. Mario asked to see the warrants for their arrest. Instead of warrants, the policemen showed their guns. The brothers went along...
Venezuelan security police intercepted two suspected Russian secret agents at Caracas' Maiquetia Airport a fortnight ago, and later deported them. Last week, after a bitter exchange of protests, Venezuela announced that it had broken off relations with Russia and recalled its chargé d'affairs from Moscow. In Latin America, only Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico still maintain diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union...
When Patrolman George Mayne answered a call for police at a Philadelphia home a fortnight ago, he found Thomas Hughes, 22, sadly pointing to a newspaper-wrapped package on the kitchen table. In it, said Hughes, was the body of his premature baby daughter, stillborn an hour or two before...
...Fortnight ago, when thieves broke into Brooklyn's Regina Pacis shrine and stole two diamond-studded crowns (TIME, June 9), Monsignor Angelo R. Cioffi made a public appeal. If the thieves would return his church's treasures, he would "forgive and forget." Through the week his parishioners, who had given their money and jewels for the crowns, prayed earnestly for their return...