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...flag-draped little oil town of El Centro one night last week, a band imported from Bogotá played The Horrible Night Has Ended,* Colombia's national anthem. Then, the Colombian Minister of Development and the president of International Petroleum Co., Ltd. (a Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey affiliate) signed the papers spread out in front of them. After that came handshakes, applause, toasts, speeches. With good feeling all around, International had handed its 2,000-square-mile De Mares oil concession back to Colombia...
...towards the huge airfield twelve miles from the city's heart. By 11 a.m. one day last month, 500,000 people blotted out the flag-decked stands, overflowed on to nearby railroad embankments. In the reviewing stand, flanked by his Politburo, stood Joseph Stalin himself. The Soviet national anthem blared out over the plain. "Dear Comrades, Muscovites," crackled the loudspeakers, "the festival of Stalin's aviation has started...
...took over from Arevalo last March, the government radio broadcast a threat: the "enemies of the people" planning the overthrow of his government would be given "a lesson they would never forget." Undeterred, a crowd of 10,000 gathered in front of the National Palace, chanted the national anthem, flourished anti-Communist placards...
More Unwashed Savages. He slashed at parsons ("bladder-headed sky-pilots") and their flocks: "It is gratifying to observe idiots crowding forward to be instructed in ignorance." He jeered at fraternal organizations ("The Improved Order of Flatheads"), composed A Rational Anthem ("My country, 'tis of thee,/Sweet land of felony"). Like many a cynic, he was an inverted idealist. He railed at corrupt politicos, fought the railroad barons, dubbed Leland Stanford "Zeland Stanford...
With this anthem on their lips, sung to the tune of "Three Blind Mice," 66 of 74 residents in Radcliffe's Whitman Hall marched to "The Campus Del." last night...