Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government, with President Jacobo Arbenz as the front man, had taken over Guatemala. The State Department began its strategy-to isolate the country under the Rio Treaty. But at the same time the Central Intelligence Agency plunged ahead with a plot to back an armed assault on Arbenz' gang by Guatemalan exiles from neighboring Honduras and Nicaragua. Mann was summoned from Athens for a consultation, heard both plans, favored the CIA. "I was an activist in that case," he recalls. A short time later, the U.S.-backed exiles stormed into Guatemala City, ousted Arbenz...
...immigrants who have poured into postwar Australia, fully 260,000 have been Italians, mostly from Calabria and Sicily. The newcomers added much that is welcome Down Under, from pizza and pasta to espresso bars and truck gardens. But as Melbourne last week was shaken by the shotgun explosions of gang warfare, Australians became aware that the new Italian immigrants had also brought with them the blood feuds of the Mafia and Camorra, as well as the code of silence induced by omerta (death for informers...
...appendectomy. Had Trotsky stopped his attacks on Stalin, had he gone into hiding as his friends urged, he might have survived or at least lived longer. But he refused to knuckle under. "I will endure this hell-black night to the end," he said. One night a gang of Stalinists, led by the Mexican artist Siqueiros, broke into Trotsky's casually guarded home and sprayed 200 machine-gun bullets around his bedroom. But he and Natalya had flung themselves under the bed just in time and were...
Similarly, it used to take six days to transfer a load of passenger cars off Matson's Hawaiian Motorist; the ship can now dock, unload and be back at sea in seven hours. Where 14-man gangs worked twelve shifts to load cargo containers into a Matson ship, a ten-man gang can now perform the complete loading job in just two shifts...
Only to Ask. Perhaps not-although Johnson acquitted himself well last week, mixing homespun answers and facts and figures with impressive assurance. Even Kennedy did not feel entirely easy in the gang conference, and to a degree had become its prisoner. Moreover, Johnson's cozy, manageable and unheralded press assemblies may very well liberate more news. And any time the President wants to go on TV, he has only...