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...heard machine-gun fire right behind us," said Dominican Republic Army Captain Zacarias de la Cruz from a hospital bed last week. "The rear window was shattered. The bullets had wounded Generalissimo Trujillo. We carried three machine guns in the car at all times, but the generalissimo had no chance to use any of them because he was too badly wounded. As soon as I stopped the car. the generalissimo jumped out, firing his revolver. Blood was spurting from his back. Seven men with machine guns and pistols piled out of the other car. There was a burst of gunfire...
Model Strongman. In the 31st year of the Era of Trujillo, Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. 69, Benefactor of the Fatherland, Rebuilder of the Financial Independence of the Republic, Father of the New Fatherland, Chief Protector of the Dominican Working Class, Genius of Peace, was gone, his body, grotesquely disfigured by 27 bullet wounds, stuffed in the trunk of the soon-to-be-abandoned car belonging to a disgruntled general named Juan Tomás Diaz. Outlived among the world's strongmen by Portugal's milder Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Trujillo had been the model for every...
...silver bullet that struck down the Emperor Jones of the Dominican Republic, but a volley of machine-gun fire. Still, like his fictional counterpart, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina will be mourned only by the relatives and friends who joined him for more than thirty years in plundering and misruling an already-poor country. Unfortunately, the power vacuum left by the Dominican dictator, coming as it does in the midst of a Caribbean Whirlpool, only adds to the quandary faced by the United States, and by all of Latin America...
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, whose Harvard accent is known to have impressed former President Truman, has now made a speech urging in effect that the United States pull the rug out from under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa...
...year's events-ever since 1927, when the first choice was Charles A. Lindbergh. At times, the Man of the Year has been a symbolic figure (the American fighting man in Korea, 1950; the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, 1956), a woman (Queen Elizabeth, 1952), or even a couple (Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek, 1937). This year tradition takes a new twist: for the first time, the cover belongs to the Men of the Year-15 brilliant Americans, exemplars of the scientists who are remaking man's world...