Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cops and Cabinet Ministers wandering freely around, the ceremonies were simple and unsecretive. Costa Rica offered Panama a written invitation, under informal discussion for the past few months, to join the Organization of Central American States, which already includes all the other isthmian countries between Mexico and South America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
...refused to admit that Communist expansion was anything like colonialism. The European satellites "are sovereign nations in the United Nations. How can we consider them colonial territories?" And what about Guatemala? "Is that not an example of another kind of colonialism?" he demanded. "I am not saying that it is. How can we decide which country is subjugated and which...
...multiplying. Judges headed by Dr. Charles W. Mayo picked him to receive $10,000, tax free, and a gold medal awarded by the Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. New York Republican Steven Derounian offered a bill in the House to give "this doctor and humanitarian" a special Congressional Medal. Guatemala's President Carlos Castillo Armas bestowed on Salk the country's highest honor, the Order., of the Quetzal. Norwegian schoolchildren collected money for a painting to give him, and three Hollywood movie companies said they wanted to film his life story. Back to the Lab. In their...
Once a year in Guatemala, everything that is revered, respectable, powerful or pompous gets powerful but highly irreverent ribbing. The occasion is the traditional Eastertide Strike of students at the University of San Carlos, one of the most merciless lampoons anywhere. Starting weeks ahead, the students shamelessly shake down politicos and merchants for expenses, adding to the fund receipts from a scurrilous vaudeville show and a scandal sheet that flouts all libel laws. With the $25,000 to $30,000 they collect, the students build big floats that are, in effect, moving stages for the outrageous and often obscene skits...
...this year's parade was the first since Castillo Armas took power, and the students naturally honored him as Target No. 1. One float kidded his anti-Communist revolution last June. A wolf decked out in hammers and sickles was stopped from devouring a Red Riding Hood named Guatemala by an ax blow from Uncle Sam. On the axhead: a picture of Castillo Armas. Another joshed his style of rule by decree, showing him whipping up two mules labeled "Congress" and "Courts." The motto of his revolution, Dios, Patria y Libertad, was devastatingly changed on the float...