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...favorite, Rear Admiral Lajaro Burgos, "calling him by the name of Napoleon, and not by his own true name." Explained El Caribe: "Assuming that Communism works by fomenting hate, stimulating the instincts of revenge and of conflict between individuals ... it has to be said that the policies to which Señor Anselmo Paulino Alvarez has been so boldly and poisonously dedicating himself are policies of the Communist type...
Under the Democratic Administration, the Federal Trade Commission followed the "per se" rule in cracking down on mergers, assumed that any merger involving a large sum of money probably interfered per se with competition. Under the Republicans, FTC has adopted a new "rule of reason." The test: Will a merger hamper competition in fact? As a result, only two merger cases are now pending before FTC. Of the hundreds of other mergers that have recently taken place, the great majority have served to give business a keener competitive edge...
...Guatemalans have no spunk!" gibed Señora Arbenz. Four months later, by way of answer, Arbenz and 13 others shot down the commander of Guatemala City's Guardia de Honor fort, won over the garrison and began shelling the capital's other two forts. A lucky hit on a powder magazine won the day spectacularly for Arbenz & friends. He and Colonel Francisco Javier Arana got a democratic constitution written and ran off a free election. It was won handily by Juan José Arévalo, a Guatemalan intellectual just back from exile in Argentina...
...Señor Presidents " he asked, "to what extent is Communist support indispensable to the regime's stability?" He also wanted assurance that the new arms would not be handed out to unions and peasants. Arbenz looked up, pleasantly asked the officers to put their questions in writing, then asked Sigui: "By the way, colonel, what is your position in this matter?" Said Sigui: "I am anti-Communist." Next day Arbenz dismissed him from command. The other officers elaborately denied that they had given Arbenz anything like an ultimatum to break with the Reds...
...mistakenly identifying her as a Negro. Although the paper printed an apologetic correction, the State Supreme Court at Jackson last week awarded her $5,000 damages. Ruled the court: "In this state, to assert in print that a white woman is a Negro is libelous per se...