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Home from exile, Machado carefully nurtured the notion that the Communists were a respectable domestic political party rather than part of a subversive international movement. The three military members of the junta, led by Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, gave the Reds free rein on the idealistic theory that checking them would be undemocratic. But after Nixon's life was endangered by Red-led mobs, the junta's two civilians, Eugenio Mendoza and Bias Lamberti, resigned in protest over the easy treatment of Communists...
Washington and London officially denied that any of their submarines were missing or overdue. Moscow was silent, though the Soviet embassy in Buenos Aires said it knew of no Russian submarines in the area. Rear Admiral Isaac Rojas, who was Vice President under Provisional President Pedro Aramburu, believes that the submarine was surveying the lonely Patagonian coast, where there are several bays that could be used to shelter big fleets in the event...
...junta, U.S. embassy officials and long lines of silent troops waited to see the Nixons off at the airport. At 5:09 p.m. the DC-6B flicked off the runway and turned north for Puerto Rico and U.S. soil. In Caracas the night before, Venezuela's Provisional President Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, gloomily twirling a yellow pencil, had expressed his fervent regrets. "It is very sad," he murmured. "I shall never forget this thing all my life...
Isolation. Loneliness is an appalling depressant by itself. For all his Navy training and lofty motivation, a six-month Antarctic night threw Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd into depression. Airman Donald Farrell, after less than a week of far less severe isolation in a ground-bound cabin (TIME. Feb. 24), became not only irritable but hostile. His log for the seventh morning of his week-long simulated flight to the moon bristles with sputtering four-letter obscenities, includes...
...watched her performance intently. The Alfa Romeos came next. The first came into the turn too quickly and hit the brakes. The right rear wheel locked and the Alfa blasted through the hay bales. No injury and no damage resulted. Vag watched the second Alfa, a white one, repeat the process...