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...GUATEMALA EN PIE (Guatemala is on its feet) read hand-lettered placards taped to newly installed plate-glass windows in Guatemala City shops and restaurants last week. That was an exaggeration, but the country had at least risen to its knees and was fighting to recover from one of the most destructive earthquakes ever to hit the Western Hemisphere (TIME, Feb. 16). Last week the terrible toll continued to climb as new victims were found-nearly 19,000 dead, 66,000 wounded, at least 1,000,000 homeless.* Amid the miasma of death, new clouds of dust rose from...
...Guatemala's towns will eventually come back to life, but hundreds of thousands of survivors will be forever scarred by memories of the terror. At the U.S. military hospital set up near Chimaltenango, TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich vainly tried to comfort a weeping Indian girl; she cried not from the pain of a broken leg but because no one could tell her what had happened to her family. Hundreds of corpses were hastily buried in mass graves; some names were recorded but other bodies were interred with the briefest of notations, such as: "Found in Guatemala City Zone...
...latest reports we have from Guatemala are that things are pretty well organized," Coolidge said. She added that the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta and the U.S. Public Health Service had done an "excellent job" there...
Coolidge said Dr. Guillermo Herrera, professor of Tropical Diseases, left last Wednesday for Guatemala to observe the situation...
...trying to see where the money might be needed," Coolidge, who added she would probably go to Guatemala in March, said...