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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office. Over in Honduras' capital, Tegucigalpa, sits General Carias, whose jails are still full of political prisoners. He glares at you out of a heavy, wooden face and asks: 'Why do you write such terrible things about me? Why do you do it?' Up on the hill in Managua is General Somoza, who kicks presidents in & out of office, at will. He greets you with a big smile and an abrazo and asks: 'Stanton, what can I do for you?' You talk about the political situation and he laughs at you and says...
...Kuchko who had a pretty wife. A neighboring prince, one Yuri Dolgoruki (meaning Long-Arm),*quarreled with the boyar because (at least according to one version) he wanted Kuchko's wife. Long-Arm seized Kuchko's domains, threw a bang-up banquet on what later became Kremlin hill, and decided that this spot-with its roads and rivers crossing in all directions -would be a good place for a town. He called it Moskva after the river...
Kansas City also had a veterans' convention last week, with parade, outlandish costumes, drum, corps and sore feet. But at the 49th annual encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans (average age: 72), there was little tipping and no water-squirting. The boys of Santiago Bay, San Juan hill and the Philippines just wanted to sit and bat the breeze about their experiences back...
...summers, he had spent his vacations on a farm high on Potash Hill, in the nearly deserted Vermont hamlet of Marlboro. Marlboro had once been a flourishing center, but its industry and population had gradually dwindled until three years ago even the postofice shut down. Now a few houses, clustered around a little church and a long-closed inn, were all that remained. Hendricks bought the 150-year-old farm next door to his own and set to work...
This week Marlboro College is ready to open its doors, officially on schedule, but there is still plenty of work to be done. The dirt road from Molly Stark Highway to Potash Hill needs a macadam surface. The college "laboratories"-war-surplus huts from an army air base-have not arrived...