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...Dictator's troubles had only begun. The disciplined people's strike which overthrew El Salvador's Theosophist-Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martinez (TIME, May 29) set a pattern for revolt in Central America. Reports from neighboring countries revealed that plans for a similar campaign in Guatemala were already well advanced. Cleverer than Martinez and no less ruthless, Ubico clearly intended to drown any such movement in blood. In repression, his was a practiced hand...
...much breaking down at the finish, too many last walks around the Yard, too much dreaming over old English A themes and football program. He had gone to too many farewell parties, smashed too many beer bottles in fireplaces, seen too many people off at South Station. The inevitable pattern of "Gee, I hate to leave the old place;" a pause, and then, "well, so long kid, see you," the over hearty hand-shake and the quick turning away, had begun to seem almost indecent...
Model Boy. Spruance might pose as the model of an admiral in the U.S. Navy, which sets great store by selfdiscipline, intelligence, conformity to Navy pattern. He is a modified version of his starched, icy-eyed commander in chief, Admiral Ernest King...
...women reported to work as usual at Brewster Aeronautical Corp.'s Long Island factories-and discovered that 4,500 had been fired that day. The sudden shock of this news stirred angry questions to which all U.S. labor wanted an answer: Was this to be the pattern of cutbacks and reconversion? Where were Washington's well-laid (or at least well-trumpeted) plans for painless transition to peacetime production...
...Pattern of Defeat. Technically, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's Tenth and Fourteenth Armies were still in one piece. But they had been fearfully cut up. Since the drive began on May 11 they had had around 60,000 casualties; more than 20,000 had been captured; at least five of their 18 divisions had ceased to function...