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...Although I have not decided whether I will go up myself, I am definitely planning to arrange another trip into the stratosphere this July in Belgium," said Professor Augusto Piccard of the University of Brussels to a CRIMSON reporter last night. "It is also possible that I shall return to the United States next year and supervise an ascent near Chicago," Professor Piccard continued...
...desperado who must be exterminated. Lurking in the hills and jungles of northern Nicaragua, he and his 500 guerrillas slew 135 U. S. officers & men before President Hoover withdrew the Marines (TIME, Jan. 9). Last week Nicaragua's arch-desperado and Robin Hood, tough little General Augusto Cesar Sandino, flew down from his mystery base in the north to Managua, capital of Nicaragua, and was smartly saluted by 50 native National Guardsmen (trained by U. S. Marines...
...foreign ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. Into the White House Blue Room where he stood stiffly waiting there marched promptly at 2:15 p. m. the State Department's Warren Delano Robbins and a dark-skinned, bright-eyed little man in a gold-embroidered green uniform. He was Augusto Rosso, Italy's new Ambassador...
Unmarried, young-looking for his 48 years, Augusto Rosso is called in Italy "the American Uncle," not because he likes the U. S. (which he does) but because he is rich. He smokes potent Tuscano cigars, rides horseback with furious abandon. Quick, dynamic, agreeable, he is expected quickly to become a potent force in the diplomatic corps at the Capital...
Last week the only one of former "Red" Sacasa's former officers who was still fighting U. S. Marines?and has fought them for five long years?was General Augusto Cesar Sandino. During the electoral campaign General Sandino, who was not officially a candidate, abruptly proclaimed his rebel camp the "Capitol of Nicaragua." Not wishing to be bombed or to feel a Marine's bayonet between his ribs. General Sandino kept secret the whereabouts of his "Capitol," well hidden in the Nicaraguan mountains near Honduras. Announced he: "I do not recognize Sacasa as the winner of election. I shall...