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Last week, Victor Manuel Aguilar Monge's trip to Heaven was all over. Just 2½ years after the policeman stopped him in San Antonio, he walked into Costa Rica. Happily he trudged off for San Jose, to look for the U.S. consul...
Businessmen who refused to grease official Filipino palms complained that they could not purchase any of the $600 million in U.S.-donated surplus property. Many a postoffice mail sorter called upon business houses for "remembrances," saying, "You know your mail passes through my hands." Said cynical Interior Secretary Jose Zulueta, who saw more of corrupt Manila than of the less civilized but more honest interior: "There is no such thing as honesty nowadays...
Victor Manuel Aguilar Monge is a smiling, flashing-eyed Costa Rican youngster who knows where Heaven is. It is, he is sure, the U.S.- the place that sends shining Buicks and glistening DC-35 to his native San Jose. When he was 15, Victor Manuel packed up, wrapped a piece of soap and a towel in his other blue shirt, and started for Heaven. Last week he told his strange story...
...Sometimes he got lifts, sharing the rear hump of a burro with a friendly peon or clinging to the bouncing tailboard of a truck. He walked a lot, too, and one by one he put the boundaries behind him-Nicaragua, Honduras, Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico. Six months after leaving San Jose, he was walking down the streets of San Antonio, Tex., gaping at the tall buildings, the glittering stream of automobiles. Then a cop picked...
Illustrated Lecture. In San Jose, Calif., Detective Captain Raymond Blackmore, addressing the Quota Club on "Crime Detection," glanced out the window, saw a man wanted by police, hustled out and nabbed...