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...Rio Piedras...
When are the people of this country going to realize that we must stop the Communist threat in Latin America? Are we going to wait until the guerrillas cross the Rio Grande before we do anything...
...mile lead over his nearest competitor. That was the way it went, around the world; across the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean to Sydney, Australia; through the roaring forties and raging fifties of the southern ocean to Cape Horn, the sailor's nemesis; then on to Rio de Janeiro; and during the relatively tranquil run back to Newport...
...Denver and Rio Grande would get out of the unprofitable passenger business and make some money on its tracks from Denver to Salt Lake City by leasing Amtrak the right of way. In turn, Amtrak would hope to gain more passengers on its Chicago-Oakland route by changing the train's path so that it crossed more spectacular terrain. The former route traversed southern Wyoming; the new route, and the new train, will cut through the Colorado Rockies...
DIED. Ernesto de la Guardia, 78, President of Panama from 1956 to 1960; in Panama City. The target of the first liberation campaign sponsored by Cuba's Fidel Castro, De la Guardia in 1959 invoked the Rio Treaty, calling on his neighbors to help repel the threat. The "invaders" turned out to be a comic-opera troupe of adventurers who had been recruited by De la Guardia's chief political rival, Roberto Arias, and his wife Ballerina Margot Fonteyn. As the coup fizzled, Arias fled, Fonteyn was arrested, and the Cubans, repudiated by Castro, were induced to surrender...