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...warm little war and a cold-blooded assassination carried the six small nations of Central America into 1955 with characteristic gusto. In countless small but deadly revolutions, from the days of the smoothbore musket through the time of the machine-gunning fighter plane, they have earned their unhappy renown as a sort of American Balkans-plus-volcanoes. Last week the area was smoking in much the way it did during the filibuster-filled past...
...veteran of 32 years' service with the Air Force, postwar commanding general of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; of a heart attack; in Arcadia, Calif. Trainer of hundreds of military pilots (among his pupils: Generals Nathan F. Twining, Hoyt Vandenberg, Curtis E. LeMay), four-star Uncle Joe won renown as one of World War II's great tactical airmen; devised "Operation Strangle," which severed Nazi rail transport to central Italy in preparation for the push on Rome...
Until recently the Americanization of Wolf Ladejinsky was a copybook success story. An immigrant, he won an education and renown as a U.S. agricultural expert who helped to stymie the Communists in the Far East. Last week, after 19 years in federal service, he lost his $11,800-a-year job as U.S. agricultural attache in Tokyo. "Mr. Wolf Ladejinsky," the Agriculture Department announced, "does not meet technical standards and security requirements . . ." Ladejinsky, 55, a short, intense, scholarly man who puffs a curved pipe, said quietly: "I came to America when I was 22, with no money, no friends...
Senior Harry sacks is the only player on the stating five against Northeastern Monday of any renown. Having tied for the fifth position on the Ivy League's second team last year, he holds the League record for the most foul shots in a season. The 6-3 center from Long Beach, N.Y., however, couldn't carry the team last year, and be won't be able to do it alone this year...
Under a Bushel. The rest of the fresh man group (average age: 55) does not stand high in national renown. Two, South Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond and North Carolina's W. (for William) Kerr Scott, 58, have been governors of their states. Of the seven new Republican Senators, all but one are or have been Congressmen. The one: Colorado's Gordon Allott, 47, whose light, as lieutenant governor, has been hidden under the bushel-basket showmanship and popularity of retiring Governor Dan Thornton. Allott, a liberal Republican and onetime Stassen-for-President booster, scored a minor...