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Mendez refused, hurried from Asuncion out to Campo Grande, Paraguay's biggest military base, and lined up an artillery regiment, two cavalry regiments, the capital's police force and an infantry battalion for the revolution. Stroessner hastily secured the loyalty of two cavalry regiments, the presidential guard battalion, an infantry regiment and Paraguay's two-gunboat navy. Politicos of the dominant Colorado party, who have developed a phenomenal sensitivity for this sort of thing, carefully studied the lineups and threw in with Stroessner. Without a shot having been fired, Mendez conceded, at least for the moment...
Under the glaring canopy of lights in Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory, the 1,500 A.F.L.-C.I.O. delegates bore decorously the immense power and affluence they controlled in the moment of their 15-million-member merger of 141 unions -the greatest assemblage of free labor's many mansions in one house...
...terrorists had hardly melted back into the jungle before the Royal Regiment of Artillery's 25-pounders began laying down heavy barrages on suspected Communist jungle hideouts. In Kuala Lumpur, headquarters of the British and Malayan forces, General Sir Geoffrey Bourne announced tersely that all-out war against the terrorists would be resumed immediately, canceled the order to "shout before you shoot." The reason Communists could face up to the resumption of a shooting war with some confidence lay not so much in the Federation of Malaya as in the British island colony of Singapore at the southern...
...Penn-Texas Corp. (TIME, Oct. 3). Born in Washington, B.C., West Pointer "Buck" Lanham wrote poetry until it interfered with his Army career, later edited Infantry in Battle, a widely used Army textbook. In World War II, he fought through Normandy and the Bulge with the 22nd Infantry Regiment, earned a jacketful of decorations, including the Distinguished Service Cross. ¶ Walter A. (for nothing) Haas, 66, the man who made denim work pants high fashion, moved up from president to board chairman of San Francisco's Levi Strauss & Co. Haas, a San Franciscan and University of California graduate, married...
...Triumph. To the British it had seemed simple and tidy. Lyttelton silenced Laborite criticism and moved himself nearly to tears with an emotional speech about his own affection for the Kabaka. "It was the more painful to me because he was a member of my university, and of my regiment [the Grenadier Guards], and a friend of my son's at Cambridge!" The press applauded, the critics subsided chapfallen...