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...first voters trooped to polling places to elect Guatemala City's mayor, Humberto Gonzalez Juárez, the official candidate, foresightedly stocked up on Scotch for a victory party. That he might lose was scarcely thinkable; Gonz...
...Juárez had a big election fund and hundreds of campaign workers, plus the warm support of President Jacobo Arbenz, the pro-government leftist parties and the Communists. He did have one worry: his house might be too small for a proper post-election celebration...
...voting, under Guatemalan law, went on for three days. But last week, after the National Election Board had counted the ballots, González Juárez called off his party. He had been trounced. The winner, by 24,466 votes to 19,306, was Juan Luis Lizarralde (TIME...
...Gallery started the war as commander of the fleet air base at Reykjavik, Iceland. His relationship with the U.S. Army Air Force was sometimes-less than cordial. One day when the Air Force reported 13 German JU-88s on the radar screen and the pips turned out to be twelve ducks, Gallery gleefully asked for full technical details "of this revolutionary development in bombardment aircraft." He also asked what had become of the 13th. Says Gallery: "The colonel made a very silly, unmilitary, and totally impracticable suggestion as to what I could do with that missing duck if I found...
Last week Colonel Prendergast climbed into his Thunder jet, took off on his 27th combat mission, a standard workhorse job-cutting enemy rail lines near Sinan-ju. Mission completed, he was leading his formation home when he got word that the landing field at Taegu was all but socked in by weather, and that several score orbiting planes were stacked up there waiting their turns to land. Prendergast led his men to another field, saw them head in safely, one by one, then started down himself. He was making his final approach when he ran out of fuel...