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That a popularly elected government in a distant nation should be deposed for the sake of a bunch of banana salesmen may seem absurd and even comical. Mostly though, it is terrifying. Arbenz's policies--essentially the legalization of labor unions and a modest land reform that expropriated only unused fields, including much of United Fruits holdings--were hardly those of a Marxist revolutionary Nor did they pose a lethal threat to United Fruit's interests, its fruit-producing lands remained untouched But America, caught up in the hysteria of McCarthysim and the Cold War, flinched. The reflex to react...
...doing exactly what we have been doing all the time without admitting it--when a guy gets convicted of doing something serious, nobody's figured out how to give him the proper outlook on life. So we will lock him up for a good long time with a bunch of rats just as vicious as he is, and see if by the time he gets out he's lost interest in raising hell." Which seems to be about how it works...
...Tigers, now 5-5, are a bunch of EIBL also-rans who didn't even manage to sweep Dartmouth on Saturday. Yet, powered by a Paul Steinhauser three-run homer in each game and the six-hit, eight-strikeout pitching of Holly, they pulled off one of those minor miracles that seems to happen somewhere in the Eastern League every weekend, and before you could pause for a commercial message. Harvard was being written out of the EIBL script, 1-3 in the league and 3-7 overall...
...John Bunch New York City...
DIED. Warren Gates, 53, earthy character actor whose laconic manner and menacing Kentucky drawl landed him numerous roles as a moody, alienated cowboy or gangster; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Besides appearing in the TV series Have Gun, Will Travel, Gates was in 40 films, including The Wild Bunch (1969) and the recently released The Border...