Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nationwide middlebrow vogue. Hutchins himself teaches one class of prominent Chicagoans (known as "The Fat Men's Course"). There are 50,000 other people hashing the books over, too, from Chicago's swank Union League Club to the Detroit House of Correction and the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala...
...last April, copper-cheeked Margarito Castro planted corn on his hillside acre near Guatemala's volcano-ringed Lake Atitlán and prayed to the Virgin and a host of saints that rain might be plentiful and the harvest good. One morning last fortnight, after a plentiful harvest, Castro loaded the first quintal (100 lbs.) of corn into a dugout canoe and, with his two eldest sons, paddled across the deep-blue lake to the market in Panajachel...
Castro and his family had at least survived. In Guatemala City, government officials estimated the dead in the rains and floods at 4,000. Red Cross Official Edward Russell, who led a U.S. relief party from Panama, thought 500 more likely. At least 20,000 were homeless...
Back from Germany in 1942 with doctorates in natural science and chemistry, Serrano taught at Guatemala City's San Carlos University and spent his spare time studying ixbut. Last week he had finished a 14-month series of experiments (in which Guatemala physicians cooperated) under contract for Merck & Co., and was busy writing his report...
Died. Colonel Francisco Javier Arana (37), chief of Guatemala's armed forces and heavily backed candidate for the presidency; by assassination; in Guatemala City's 20th conspiracy since March 1945 (see HEMISPHERE...