Word: guardia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would the British-Israeli clash disrupt the scheduled peace talk between Egypt and Israel? Mediator Bunche, as usual, was optimistic. So was his chief of staff, Brigadier General William E. Riley. As the two men took off from La Guardia Field this week for Rhodes, they were ready for the best and the worst. The Jews and the Egyptians, Bunche declared, would "have a hell of a time getting off the island" without reaching an agreement. "We have our fingers crossed," he added with a grin, "and we'd have our toes crossed too, if we could...
Nine men from the Greenland icecap rescue (TIME, Jan. 3) riding in style in a red-tailed C-54 transport, landed 30 minutes late in a freezing rain at La Guardia Field. Official greeters swarmed all over them and pumped their hands while newsmen pumped their memories for details of their Greenland exploits. ("How did you find conditions on the icecap?" asked one blonde newshen.) In the background Air Force P.R.O.s worked diligently. The glory would not have been theirs to exploit had the Air Force been beaten to the rescue by the Navy's carrier Saipan...
Patient Man. Tacho pictured himself a man of infinite patience. His Guardia Nacional, charged by the Costa Ricans with equipping and backing the invasion, was actually "the keeper of the peace in Central America." (In less sensitive times, Tacho had been known to boast that the crack Guardia could get him to San José in three days...
Solid Seat. Figueres was too smart to use the Legion and thus bring the Guardia down on his neck. On the contrary, he high-pressured the Legion's leaders into disbanding the organization and turning over its weapons to his government. Many in San José suspected that the Legion could get them back if it needed them...
...crisis simmered down, Figueres was more solid than ever in the presidential chair. Somoza had his Legion foes at least temporarily disarmed. The O.A.S. could preen itself on a rapid job of calming intervention. Only Calderon Guardia had to face the fact of failure...