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Last year, exiled Juan José Arévalo, 58, the Yankee hater (The Shark and the Sardines) who made friends with the Communists during his 1945-51 term as President, announced that he was returning to run for President again. Ydigoras let it be known that he would hale Arévalo into court if he set foot in Guatemala. Then he had a better idea: Why not let Arévalo return and beat him at an election? Ydigoras could do this by his control of the election machinery. Ydigoras' own candidate was Roberto Alejos, a planter...
...Castro fighters, though weakened by a corrupt and ineffective regime at home. It was, instead, designed to prevent the comeback of a man cordially hated both by Ydigoras and his soldiers: Juan José Arévalo, 58, President of Guatemala from 1945 to 1951, an anti-Yankee (The Shark and the Sardines) leftist who permitted Communists in his government. Living in exile in Mexico City, Arévalo promised to return to Guatemala on March 31, install himself as a presidential candidate in next November's elections. With Ydigoras constitutionally unable to succeed himself, Arévalo...
...underwater graveyard off the Malay coast is a litter of bones, picked clean by the sharks that come there to feed. The natives take advantage of the fact by catching the sharks and selling their fins to rich Chinese, who prize fins as aphrodisiacs. But the shark fishermen pay a price for their enterprise: scrabbling over the beach to tend the drying fins, each shows the stump of a leg, a maimed hand, the nub of an elbow...
...Decker's father-still hung up on a bogus buddyhood with war cronies-is a martini-oiled mechanism, a country-club wine-and-food snob and bore. His grandfather is a picture of the indignity of a foolish old age. After a successful life as a real estate shark, the old phony has set himself up disguised as a grizzled sourdough pioneer of the Old West-he came from Iowa-and runs a California-type museum devoted to the world's greatest collection of whorehouse pianos, amassed by himself...
...mile American Challenge Cup. It looked like a big day for Chevrolet's famed Corvette, flashiest and most powerful U.S. sportscar. No fewer than seven Corvettes were in the 14-car field, six of them new 1963 Sting Rays, their powerful V-8 engines blatting angrily under shark-nosed hoods. In the cockpits sat some of racing's top drivers, among them Indianapolis Veteran A. J. Foyt. Down went the flag. Off screamed the Corvettes. And zoom-a ringer from G.M.'s family production line ran off with the race...