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Unsmiling General. When Guatemala's hated Dictator Jorge Ubico resigned the presidency, he delegated power to a junta of three generals. The leader, hard and unsmiling Federico Ponce, promptly convoked Ubico's hand-picked Congress, over awed it by stationing troops at the doors. Obediently, the deputies elected him Provisional President. Five young lawyers who protested were slapped into jail. Ponce's government won astonishingly prompt U.S. approval...
Freshmen interested in photographic work on the 1948 Freshman Red Book will meet at 7 o'clock Thursday evening at Phillips Brooks House, the Student Council announced yesterday in a move to insure prompt publication of the yearbook...
Reported the sober-sided Times of London: "The idea is current that Britain and the United States, being rich countries, have no interest in, or understanding of a poor country like Italy, but that Russia. . . is clearly cut out to be Italy's friend. The prompt resumption of diplomatic relations with Italy by the Soviet Government supports this idea and assists the tactics of the Communist Party, which aims at becoming the national party of Italy as it is in Russia...
Only by the first week's end could the Associated Press report that communications had become "well established," that there was now "reasonable assurance" of prompt, direct coverage from France...
...preparing for the invasion's wounded, he and his Chief Surgical Consultant, Harvard's dynamic Dr. Elliott Cutler, insisted on one basic principle: chemotherapy is no substitute for prompt surgery. So they recruited numbers of good surgeons, organized them for front-line work, trained legions of Medical Corpsmen, litter bearers, ambulance drivers, aircraft crews, in expediting the wounded...