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...Quadros staged a spectacular maneuver. To get the nomination of the powerful National Democratic Union (U.D.N.), he had earlier agreed to accept the U.D.N. vice presidential candidate as his running mate. Suddenly he rejected the U.D.N.'s man and withdrew from the race. Confusion reigned: a few hair-trigger army and air force officers tried to stage a coup as a means of forcing him to reconsider. The Veep candidate resigned, the U.D.N. agreed to share Quadros with other parties, and finally Quadros announced: "You have defeated me. I return." Return he did-free of all party commitments...
...wiry, vicious brawler in his sugar-cane town of San Cristóbal. Opportunity arrived with the U.S. Marines, who landed in 1916 to watch over customs collections and bond payments, and who used Trujillo as an informer and procurer of obliging ladies. Trujillo's idol was a trigger-happy captain named C. F. Merkle, whose idea of order was shooting "troublemakers." Merkle was finally arrested, and committed suicide before he could be tried. But Trujillo went on to become boss of the Dominican armed forces, a position he used to make himself President in 1930. "God & Trujillo...
Coincidentally, Sullivan was indicted for negligence in 1955 after the escape of Elmer (Trigger) Burke from Charles Street Jail in Boston, but was acquitted shortly thereafter...
...either word will do," and, like most angry young men, shoots his outrage off in all directions. His hero is the persecuted individual, his villain the persecuting mass; he senses "instances of inhumanity all around me." A newspaper story, a political campaign, a photograph in a book-anything may trigger a painting. Says Strombotne: "I react violently to practically everything...
...Scyoc made five passes, then banked for a sixth. Just as the manuals said, the Sidewinder was shackled by safety devices. A hook-shaped pin immobilized the trigger; a toggle switch was in the nonfiring position; a vital circuit breaker was off. Yet somehow a Sidewinder got away. The horrified Van Scyoc could only radio: "Look out, one of my missiles has fired!" A second later the explosion sent the bomber crashing against the snow-covered side of Mount Taylor. At least three members of the eight-man crew managed to parachute to safety, and rescue parties began slogging through...