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General Ydigoras went to work on the M.D.N. with threats and blandishments. He sent out a radio call for his followers all over the country to march on the capital, threatened to investigate graft by M.D.N. leaders and "jail them as thieves." But behind the scenes he talked smoothly with Cruz Salazar about the need for "national unity" against Communism. Bowing to the best hope for peace. Cruz Salazar accepted the offer of M.D.N. participation in the Cabinet, an ambassadorial post for himself. Some militant M.D.N. Congressmen cried sellout, but enough will probably go along to give Ydigoras his majority...
...with David's pupils dilated and fixed-usually a sign of death-the diseased section of aorta was cut out. In its place, Surgeon Braunstein and assistants began stitching in a graft, donated by a man who had died two months earlier, which was then freeze-dried. At 8:55 the stitching was finished. Fourteen pints of blood had been used. There was still no sign of a heartbeat or of life in David's eyes. The clamps were removed. Then the seemingly unbelievable happened. Says Dr. Mahajan, who was still massaging David's heart...
Lauro's resignation has long been the aim of the Democratic Christian national government in Rome. Last week Minister of the Interior Fernando Tambroni railed against the staggering Naples deficit ($50 million for this year) and the graft, corruption and chaos of Lauro's open-handed administration. Naples' local Communists enthusiastically backed Tambroni's charges-they cannot match the effectiveness of Lauro's electioneering techniques, which include the distribution of thousands of left-foot shoes to voters with the promise of the other shoe "when you vote right...
Under the succeeding regimes of the constitutionally elected Presidents Ramón Grau San Martin and Carlos Prio Socarrás, rival gangs polished off some 100 political victims. Both the Grau and Prio regimes milked the nation of millions in graft. After Batista came back, he rammed through a one-candidate election in 1954 and his administration set new records for corruption. The middle-class opposition groups began forming...
Earle turned out to be a playboy governor; Lawrence, as secretary of the commonwealth, ran Pennsylvania. He made one impolitic mistake. In a burst of bipartisanship, he sanctioned appointment of a Republican attorney general, eventually found himself indicted on graft and corruption charges for passing out illegal contracts and "macing" state employees for political contributions. Cleared after two lengthy trials, Lawrence went home to Pittsburgh to recoup prestige. He engineered the election of two ineffectual Democratic mayors, finally in 1945 decided he could better handle the job himself...