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Moises Padilla was an insignificant figure but a courageous man, a former lieutenant in the U.S. Far East forces and later a local guerrilla leader who fought the Japanese. When election time rolled around, Padilla filed as Nacionalista candidate for mayor of Magallon, a dusty little pip on the map. Governor Lacson, a member of the Liberal Party, who liked to boast that he had 200,000 votes in his pocket, notified Padilla to clear out if he valued his health...
...reported itself over Zagreb about on schedule, but Yugoslav radio monitors later computed that it was actually over Varazdin, 40 miles away (see map) ; apparently the pilot had mistaken the Drava for the Sava...
...asked U.S.A.F. for a bearing and course back to Venice, later sent a final message: "Low on fuel. Not sure I can make Venice or emergency landing." Red fighters evidently got on the trail, forced the 6026 down at a Soviet airfield at Papa, Hungary. There, after seizing the map kits, chutes, blankets and field radios which all U.S. transports carry for emergency landings, the Reds accused the crew of "criminal intentions" and held them. Hungary ignored two State Department notes demanding the release of the flyers and the plane. Apparently the next step is blackmail: within...
...restraining ties were loosening. British engineers, protected by a paratroop brigade and tanks, bulldozed an evacuated Egyptian hamlet off the ' map to build a road between the garrison and its water filtering plant. Commanding General Sir George Erskine decreed: "All routes in and out of Suez are closed . . . I will not accept armed [Egyptian] police anywhere near my troops...
Eighth graders were just as bad. Though almost all (98%) could locate California on a map, 13% could not find the Atlantic Ocean and 16% failed on their own home town. One out of five could not name California's governor, one out of three wrote, "Has the bell rang?", nearly half did not know how to punctuate "April 15, 1951." Only 40% correctly answered the question: "Frank paid $8 plus 3% sales tax for a pair of shoes. How much did the shoes cost...