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Three days later, back in Miami, Pilot Murphy, suddenly in the money, bought a $3,412 Dodge convertible for himself. The next month, he got a co-pilot's job on the Dominican Airlines, through the personal decision of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Murphy bragged that he could have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: The Dictator's Long Arm | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

A diplomatic note rocketed last week from the State Department to Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic: What had the Dominican authorities discovered in their prolonged investigation of the death of Airline Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy, 23, a U.S. citizen? Buried in the question was a startling story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Case of the Missing Pilot | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Greek Cypriots were enraged. Said the mayor of Nicosia: "E.O.K.A. was not defeated. This was not what we expected." From Athens Greek opposition leader George Papandreou heatedly declaimed: "The attitude of the British government and Executioner Harding leaves only one answer, an implacable fight for freedom." Disdainfully, E.O.K.A.'s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Blimp Rides Again | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Still among the missing last week was Jesús de Galindez, the Columbia University lecturer who disappeared without a trace in Manhattan one night last March (TIME, April 2). Missing, too, was any solid evidence to fortify the widely publicized charge that the Dominican Republic's long-armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: The Hat Passer | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

The simmering mystery over the Manhattan disappearance of Jesús de Galindez, scholar, author and bitter enemy of Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, boiled up suddenly last week and scalded the political future of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who gets $30,000 a year for representing Dictator Trujillo in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Missing Man | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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