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...hotel suite in Pasto (altitude: 8,400 ft.), where he had gone to watch army maneuvers. White-haired, gentle-mannered President Lopez padded sleepily to the door, peered into the barrels of two drawn revolvers, admitted his visitors, learned that he was "under arrest." Another colonel, one Diogenes Gil, had led a successful army revolt, said the visitors. The President had two hours to resign. Soldiers entered, stepped briskly to all the windows and doors and stood with their rifles raised...
...Pasto, Colonel Diogenes Gil proclaimed himself President...
...worry like hell when you get back these first Report marks. But don't crease your manly brows, we both got "Unsat's" in our first report. That frightened the life out of us. So we went to work, as Gil Cross puts it, "to got this Harvard system down cold." By dint of hard work, clean living, and being nice to the markers, we can now boast that we have lifted our marks up to a high Low Pass...
From days immemorial the tawny Gil-bertese have chanted their folk sagas. Last week New York Timesman Robert Trumbull recorded one that "chanters yet unborn will sing"-the story of the U.S. 165th Infantry and the bathing girls of Makin Atoll...
Survivors of the baby flat-top Liscome Bay, torpedoed offshore during the Gil berts invasion, numbered 268. This fact indicated that almost as many men went down with the ship as died on Tarawa; yet no one got particularly excited about the Liscome...