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Arnulfo was dapper, yanqui-baiting ex-President Arnulfo Arias, an old enemy of Remón but a politico who has the support of the powerful Authentic Revolutionary Party and would have won the 1948 presidential elections if an electoral jury had not thrown out 2,714 of his ballots. When the Supreme Court declared ousted Daniel Chanis still the lawful President, Remón went straight to Arnulfo's Bella Vista home and invited the man he helped toss out in 1941 to take over at the palace...
Three Presidents in a week was too much for the U.S. State Department, especially when the last to emerge was such an old Hitler-lover as Arnulfo Arias. Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller Jr., who had called on Chanis in the Presidencia only ten days earlier, frostily announced that the U.S. had not yet recognized the new regime. Unperturbed, Arnulfo replied that recognition was "only a question of time." Even Miller had said that after a period of observation, the U.S., following recent hemispheric practice, could consult with other American republics about resuming normal relations...
Except for the names on the Protestant cemetery's moss-covered tombstones, little now remains to show that the town was settled by Americans. Of the descendants of the original settlers, only the family of Dr. James R. Jones, a young dentist-farmer, clings to the old ways. "Doutor Jaime," his black-haired wife Judith (nee McKnight) and their two children still speak English at home; Doutor Jaime's brother, who married an Italian girl, speaks it only haltingly, "because I have no practice...
Sharman Douglas, 21-year-old daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and close friend of Princess Margaret, has just finished a secretarial course at a Kensington business college, is a speedy, accurate typist, and can take dictation at 120 words a minute, an official press release from the U.S. embassy in London announced...
Friends of Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday, recalled a recent Churchillism on the subject of old age: "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." In the first issue of the Italian magazine Insieme (Together), which the publishers had promised would stress "the exaltation of family life," Co-Editor Countess Edda Ciano wrote unashamedly that she had been born out of wedlock to Benito Mus solini and Rachele Guidi, who was later his wife. "For many years, unaware of being a bastard...