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...even use him. But back of Lechin are Communist labor leaders, who also plan to use him. Such Marxists are spreading the word among Bolivia's Indians that land reform is next, and a restlessness has already been noted on the altiplano. If Paz shoots the nationalist wad and fails, the door to Marxist revolution may be blown wide open. And if the Reds sneak in, Bolivia will indeed be back on the map of the world's trouble spots...
...sitting on the steps or moving about nervously, waiting to welcome the governor. They all were Dever buttons and some sported two or three. Tobin, dressed in a sharply pressed blue suit, walked up and down the long path from the building to the street. He clutched a folded wad of paper which appeared to be introductory remarks of some sort...
...young British war correspondent named Winston Churchill to reconquer the Sudan from the Mahdi. Captain Naguib married a black-eyed Sudanese beauty who bore him nine children. Mohammed Naguib, 51, was the eldest of their three sons, born in Khartoum, but raised in the mud-walled village of Wad Medani, where his father was District Commissioner. Young Mohammed and his brothers, Aly and Mahmoud, splashed and scrapped in the germ-laden waters of the Blue Nile with the barefoot village boys, played soldiers in the muddy fields where the fellahin raised their cotton crops, and learned the timeless songs...
Canada's armed services are faced with an alarming problem they have yet to lick: sabotage. Last year, the main bearings of the nation's only aircraft carrier, the Magnificent, were filled with sand and brass filings; last April, a bomber pilot found a Greenwood choking wad of cleansing tissue in the tube of his oxygen mask. Last week the hand of the saboteur struck again, this time at the Royal Canadian Air Force's big Greenwood base in Nova Scotia. Soon after taking off, the pilot of a Lancaster bomber ran into trouble. As he sought...
Armored with the Senate's immunity from libel suits, the man from Wisconsin rose and fired a McCarthy wad at Philleo Nash, 42, Harry Truman's special assistant on problems of minority groups in the U.S. Said McCarthy: Nash was a member of the Communist Party in the early '40s, his home in Toronto once was a Communist spy rendezvous, and at one time he was "in close contact with the Communist underground in Washington." As his sources, McCarthy listed FBI and Loyalty Review Board files, which are supposed to be closed even to a Senator...