Word: lampposts
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...drops spattered down on the black sod. Ike perched on the top of the back seat of a green Cadillac convertible and was driven out through the crowds, smiling and waving. The car turned up toward Abilene's business district, past the "Welcome Home Ike" banners on every lamppost and in every store window. It stopped on Northwest Third Street at the Sunflower Hotel, a plain, eight-story square brick building which is Abilene's only skyline...
That night, to 50,000 partisans milling about in the Plaza Murillo, where M.N.R. Dictator Gualberto Villarroel was strung up on a lamppost six years ago, Paz cried: "I was not lucky enough to be with you in your heroic hour, but now my life is yours!" Then the onetime economics professor gave the word his fanatics came to hear: "We shall. . . study nationalization of the mines." The crowd roared...
...Bolivia exploded last week in bloody revolution. Revolutions are no novelty in the remote Andean republic, which has averaged better than one a year since its liberation from Spain in 1825. Men the world over remember its 1946 rebellion, and the photographs of Dictator Gualberto Villarroel hanging from a lamppost (which is still a tourist attraction in La Paz). Last week, the heirs of Villarroel, fanatical members of the totalitarian Movement of National Revolution (M.N.R.), clawed their way back...
...secret in prearranged code to Anisimov. Sometimes he would cycle about in civilian clothes pretending to pick berries, but really sketching details of coastal fortifications. Later he would write a report in invisible ink, put it in the toolbox of his bike and leave it parked by a prearranged lamppost. Presently he would return and find another bike in its place. His reward, a bundle of money tied up in ribbons of Sweden's national blue and gold, would be lying in the second bike's toolbox...
Scholarly Paz Estenssoro, onetime Finance Minister and M.N.R. boss, fled to Argentina after the 1946 revolution, when a La Paz mob strung up the bullet-riddled body of M.N.R.-backed Dictator Gualberto Villarroel from a lamppost. Since then, Paz has lived mostly in Buenos Aires and Uruguay. Political confusion and economic difficulties at home paved the way for his startling comeback. But he did not win the absolute majority required for direct election. Congress, meeting in August, must now choose a President from among the three leading candidates (one of whom was backed by the present government...