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...Commissar. There were many other pieces in the political crazy quilt. In Costa Rica, bumbling President Teodoro Picado had been shoved aside, and Communist Chieftain Manuel Mora was openly bossing the government show from Bella Vista fortress. Shrewd Manuel Mora gave his Communists guns, then held them ready in the capital. Campesinos and other "volunteers" were shipped off to fight the Ulatistas...
...Verl Langford of Buena Vista, Colo., named No. 1 truck driver of 1947 by the American Trucking Association, was invited to the White House and congratulated by the President for having driven a truck since 1928 without an accident...
...leering and bloodletting. Montgomery handles the show's gory details as narrator. As occasional actor, he may recreate some of his grislier movie roles (Night Must Fall, Rage in Heaven). He thinks it should develop into "a damn good dramatic show. The full hour opens up a vista of new material that is fantastic, just fantastic...
...bought Cuernavaca's Hotel Chula Vista, opened a decorating shop and a furniture factory, dabbled in real estate, bought interests in banks and insurance companies. He made electric appliances and started a razor-blade factory. He brought powdered milk from Wisconsin, mixed it with water and sugar, and sold it as a milk for Mexican babies. By last year, when the black list expired, he had grown very fond of Mexico, and of his growing empire there...
...death, and the destiny of his new masters in Germany life and conquest, and that, therefore, his listeners had better change sides and submit. This was often terrible to hear, for the news in the papers confirmed it. He was not only alarming, he was ugly; he opened a vista into a mean life. . . . He went further than that smug mockery of our plight. He sinned that sin which is the dark travesty of legitimate hatred . . . just as incest is the dark travesty of legitimate love...