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Imported Reds. The top INRA staffers under Castro and Núñez Jiménez are Attorney Waldo Medina Méndez and Production Chief Oscar Pino Santos. In 1951, the last head count on Communists before the party went underground, both were registered Reds. They have brought in six Chilean Communists to take over key INRA posts...
Died. W. (for William) Cameron Forbes, 89, Boston banker and Ralph Waldo Emerson's grandson who served (1909-13) as a popular Governor General of the Philippine Islands where he promoted industrialization and introduced polo; in Boston...
Triumphantly, Castro and Morgan paraded their prisoners on television in Havana. Castro bragged: "If we could have kept our plans secret for 15 days, we would have captured Trujillo and his whole army." Ominously, placards saying "To the firing squad!" appeared on buses and walls. Waldo Medina, a prosecuting attorney for the Supreme Court, called for execution of the plotters (the death sentence is legal for "counterrevolutionary activity") and accused the U.S. of egging them on. Bitterness-between Castro and Trujillo, between Castro and his victims at home-grew rapidly...
AGAIN ! the headlines shouted one day last January, and millions of readers pounced on the latest chapter in the amazing adventures of Ferdinand Waldo ("Fred") Demara Jr., the most spectacular impostor of modern times. A sick, brilliant, 37-year-old alter-egotist who never finished high school, Demara by main nerve and native intelligence has carried off careers as military surgeon, psychology professor, cancer researcher, dean of a school of philosophy, language teacher, law student, assistant prison warden, Trappist monk and the devil knows what else (TIME, Dec. 3, 1951; Feb. 25, 1957). Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this...
Cruising on automatic pilot 35,000 ft. over the Atlantic last week, a new Pan American 707 jet transport suddenly nosed into a steepening glide that pressed 124 aboard tightly to their seats. Fighting heavy gravity forces, Captain W. Waldo...