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...fortnight ago, unidentified saboteurs bunglingly attempted to dynamite Guatemalan power plants. A few days later, three plainclothesmen from the civil guard knocked on the door of the Quiñónez house in Guatemala City. After searching the place from attic to cellar, they asked Mario, 24, and his brother Edgar, 20, to go with them. Mario asked to see the warrants for their arrest. Instead of warrants, the policemen showed their guns. The brothers went along...
Slaps & Shocks. Worried relatives obtained a court order to "produce and exhibit" the prisoners. Last week, after holding them incommunicado for four days, the police gave in. In a room in the supreme court building, Mario and Edgar were permitted to tell a group of relatives, court officials and newsmen what had happened. Both brothers said they had been tortured. Reported Mario...
...torturing of Mario Quiñónez could not be explained away as an isolated case, the work of a few sadistic cops. Other Guatemalans have been hauled off and tortured in recent months, often for no apparent reason except that they, like the brothers Quiñónez, were members of anti-Communist organizations...
...Boccard's defense did not impress the court. He and Meridiano Director Franco Mario Servello were fined $176 plus costs. The defendants will appeal, but Gina's lawyer crowed: "The court has confirmed that Gina Lollobrigida is an honorable woman...
Rossini: William Tell (with Giuseppe Taddei, baritone, Mario Filippeschi, tenor, Rosanna Carteri, soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana of Turin, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 8 sides). A rousing version of a masterpiece too seldom performed (its last performance at the Metropolitan Opera was in 1931, and no tenors have looked strong enough to warrant its production there since). Filippeschi blasts out his killing high notes with plenty of steam. Recording : on the shrill side...