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Facts poured in fast last week as U.S. authorities dug deep into the suspiciously linked disappearances of Columbia University Lecturer Jesús de Galíndez and a U.S. airplane pilot named Gerald Lester Murphy (TIME, Feb. 11). The evidence indicated that Galíndez had been kidnaped and then flown out of the U.S. to the Dominican Republic in a plane piloted by Gerry Murphy, an airplane-happy youth of 23, who then vanished. In an investigation paralleling the FBI's, LIFE this week unearthed elaborate details of how the deed was done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: The Dictator's Long Arm | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...took off from Newark Airport, announcing his destination as Miami. But at 10:30 a.m. he landed at Zahns Airport in Amityville, L.I. That night, Murphy said later, a "cancer patient" was transferred from an ambulance to the plane. It was the same night that Galíndez vanished. Early the next morning N 68100 put down in Florida at the Lantana airport for refueling, then buzzed straight for Monte Cristi on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: The Dictator's Long Arm | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Shark-Infested Explanation. After drinks, Murphy sometimes boasted that his passenger-patient was Galíndez. On Dec. 3, after he had quit his job and was packing to return to the U.S., he disappeared. Neither he nor Galíndez has since turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: The Dictator's Long Arm | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...presumed reason for Galíndez' kidnaping: he had written a doctoral thesis condemning Trujillo, for whom he had once worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: The Dictator's Long Arm | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...rays was put on the market by Manhattan's Everseal Manufacturing Co. Sold in pale blue or green tints, the washable glare reducer is primarily designed for factories, to reduce worker eyestrain, and for warehouse windows, to protect stored goods from fading and heat damage. Price: $9.70 per gal. (enough to cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

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