Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the invasion most experienced observers still saw the face of wily Tacho Somoza. He had decided, they concluded, to do something about the Costa Rican exiles who had been training on Nicaraguan soil for a comeback. By allowing their leader, ex-President Rafael CalderÓn Guardia, to attack, Tacho set up several interesting possibilities. If discontent with the Figueres regime had reached the boiling point, an overnight coup might bring Calderon to power. If the attempt failed, Tacho could rid himself of his embarrassing guests. If the Caribbean Legion intervened to help Figueres, Tacho would have a chance...
...Diaz' nimble-witted Secretary of Treasury, conducts the Jalapa Symphony Orchestra (TIME, Oct. 4); his father, Guillermo Limantour, is Mexico City's top real-estate operator, and owns large chunks of Avenida Juarez. Rivaling Guillermo in real estate is Pedro Corcuera, the sugar king of Jalisco, who saw the Revolution coming, cannily swapped his country estates for city holdings...
...fall the footprints of a big unknown bird were found in the wild mountainous country near Lake Te Anau on South Island. Dr. Geoffrey Orbell, a physician from Invercargill, led an expedition to look for it. They climbed up into the wilderness close to snowline. At last Dr. Orbell saw what looked like a takahe. Battling his excitement he crouched to take a picture while the other members of the party, two men and a girl, crept cautiously around and threw a net over not one, but two takahes...
...Mental Diseases (Byberry): there were 6,100 patients, almost 80% more than the planned capacity of 3,400. "I was reminded of the pictures of the Nazi concentration camps at Belsen and Buchenwald ... I entered buildings swarming with naked humans herded like cattle and treated with less concern ... I saw hundreds of patients living under leaking roofs, surrounded by moldy, decaying walls, and sprawling on rotting floor for want of seats or benches...
...peeks behind the Iron Curtain, the most candid and observant was Sam Welles's Profile of Europe. In down-to-earth pictures of daily living, he showed that Russian Communism is still a burden borne on the patient backs of the overworked and undernourished Russian people. In I Saw Poland Betrayed, onetime U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane wrote a blunt, forceful account of the means by which the Kremlin (with little resistance from the U.S. Government) took over the Polish state. Political pundits had a sure-fire topic in Russia v. the Western democracies. Most crisp and provocative...