COLOMBIA lT- ColombimPresident Rojas Pinilla - is out. Resigning today - with, virtually, the whole country in a peaceful revolt. A revolution - with little or no violence. Nothing more - than opposition everywhere. Two days ago, Rojas Pinilla was re-elected President - in spite of a constitutional provision, limiting a President to one term. He had his hand picked legislature change that. Whereupo the news told of strikes - on every aide, by all kinda of people. Business - going on strike. 'ftle un1vera1ty - on strike. The final blow - when the Roman catholic church turned agalnst Rojas Pinilla. Top ecclealaat1c1 - declaring against the reglme. The primate of Col011bia - Cardinal Luque - accusing the police of murdering two students and profaning churches. ~ ( That settled 1t, and El Presidente knew - he•d ~-• 1, it. Today - enormous crowds in Bogota and other Colombian COLOMBIA - 2 cities - Janning the streets in uproarious demonstrations of joy. Tonight, there's a five-man wtltRJIJ m111tar1 junta - acting as a provisional government. Promising - Presidential elections next year. CQBA-191 At the Guantana■ o Naval Base, at the far end of Cuba, two American bo7a - were telling their story to4a,. Teen-agers - who enlisted in the rebel band of th• Cuban insurrecto, Fidel Caatro, now brought out b7 CBS lewa reporter Robert Faber. Victor Buehl■ an, la all of ae•enteen. Michael Gar•e1 - fifteen. But they aet out tor adYeatur• - \o tight in a guerrilla war. The7 Joined Castro - the exile, who 1lippe4 ,aot iato Caba last autuaa. Taking to the ■ outaiaa - leader of a band of so ■• sixty guerillas. Govern■ eat foroea - unable, still, to rout the■ out of their craggy 1troD1- holda. Today, Victor Buehlaan was asked - bad theJ •••• auch of Castro? To which a jaunty answer was gi•~n by the gangling six-foot seYenteen year old. ••• were with Castro all the ti ■•,• he laughed. PYIA-IQX - 2 •He s p oke Engliah a little bit when we got there in Februar7. But it iapro•ed a lot - in the ti ■••• apeat with hia. • The two American teen-agers ■ a, not ha•• won tbe re•olution - but the7 taught th• inaurreoto leader aou Engliab. There••• a third 7outh, twent7 7ear• old - alo . . witb th••· But Charle• i7an didn't co•• baot. Deo14llll - h• would reaain with Caatro and the r•••l• in th•l• ■ountain lair. FORMOSA A new flareup -- in Formosa Straits. A heavy artillery duel -- between Connunists and Nationalists. For a long time, things have been quiet 1n tps that sector - where both sides hold islands near each other. But, today, the Reds fired one barrage after another. The Nationalists -- shooting back. One supposition is that the sudden activity by the Conununiata may be an answer to announcements that American guided missile units will be stationed on Formosa. I NEPAL The "snow-devils' of the Himalayas - have stru.ck again. Three lives lost - when an avalanche hit a British climbing expedition. The mountain - Jugal Himal. Not auch a blg one, by Himalayan standards - only twenty-three~thousand,-three hundred feet high. Mt. Everest - towering 110re than a 111.le abov~ that. But the lesser mountains or the Hialayaa can be, sometimes, even more dangerous - than the top 110at glanta. The expedition - u two Brltona and tour Sherpa guides. The leader, Crosby Fox - linked by a rope with two Sherpas. When the avalanche came down upon them - and they simply vanished. Lost - 1n an ianensity or snow, plunging an down into Himalayan chasms. The survivors, George Spenceley and two Sherpas - taking ten days, getting back to villages or Kepal. Bringing the news - of this latest of Himalayan tragedies. MOSCO . m e , to a. - e1n de cr1 e as a ro e.san a g1.mm1c ·• A nea , c ever 1mm1c - t would seem. The Su r-eme IN•\ Soviet - as _1ng the American congreaa and the Br is ar 1ament to o1n wit he upreme Sovie:, In ringing abo t a an on atomic test explo ions. To a, both houses of the Moscow d Parl1:aent ote · unan1Jlous , to send •saages to the at1cm1J LegislatUNa 1n as ton and London. i joint c011111 ttee - set u.p to tsgf;:, a.n exchange of v1:•s between the Supreme Sov1et. on ane •*• an · Congress and Parliaent, on the other. 'lh1s action 1n Moscow foll0"9 an address by Soviet foreign M1n1.ster Grmcyko - our old dead-pan pal • ... rcny o. Who blasted away with denunciations or the &m&ial / - ~ . £ ~ 1n. Excoriating~- American aggressive pol1c1es "' . After whic - he proposal was adopted for talks between the e 1s a 1 . ve bodies 1n Mos cow. Washington and London. 7o u.ite an idea for ongress, over here. • • deai w he upreme so, et behind the ?re 1dent's back. '!be IJQSCQI - 2 British P arli aent asked to do the 1aa• with regard to Her Majesty's cabinet. ln ashington, leaaera of 111111 Congress are quiet in aayiq, •nothing doing.• Sa■• ; reaponae - in London. The p roposal called aheer propaganda - a g ia■ iok. Sound• like soaethlq - bd aeana nothin1. ATOMIC International observers - to attend at0111c g p tests 1n Nevada, this month. The United States inviting torty- seven countries to send representatives for the purpose - to let the world see the precaution• we use 1n holding atOllic experiments. Two countries - not invited. Soviet Ruaala - llblob never glvea out 1nfol'll&t1on about its cnm atomlc explociona. And India - sharply critical or American atOll1c policy. TEAMSTERS In a Washington court room today, a whole cartful of newspapers and clippings - wheeled in. Somebody - an enthusiast for journalism, you'd think. But the cart-load was produced - as evidence in the case or Jamea R. Horta, of the Teamsters Union. Hoffa - considered the number two man to union President Dave Beck. All those newapapera and clippings - to back up a legal argument. Hoffa - accused of trying to br.lbe members or a the atarr of the Senate rackets investigation cOllllittee. Appearing, today - before Federal · Judge Bumlta) Hotfa'a lawyer - requ.e■tfl. a poatpon-t of the c.t;l S■J1ng• / 1 /\ there had been, what he called; infectious publicity". An illlnenae &J10unt or unfavorable publicity - for Botta and the Teamsters Union. . To prove which - he wheeled in a whole cart load of the publicity. Newspaper articles - with harsh expreaalona. I would say Well, I don I t want to g e z any argument, b ~ that the teamsters union htwe been having a "bad 6 - - ,,( "' TEAMSTERS - 2 Anyway, Judge Burnlta granted a twenty-one day poatpon•ent. ADDTEAMSTDS Hoffa's lawyer, today, declared that cOllllittee e~a1rman Senator McClellan or Arkansas - had c01altted an 1Jlpropr1ety. Asking - how much or a fee the lawyer waa getting. To which Senator McClellan - retorts - he dld not uk about the fH. He inquired - whether or not Hotta•a attorney - belal pald out or union tunda? The Senator adding - he'd Iii al10 like to know 1r union Prealdent Dave Beck 1a paJlng tor legal aervic•• out or union duea. BBCIC Testimony, today, indicates - that Teamster President Dave Beck and an associate made a quick profit. In connection with a memorial fund- established for the widow of Beck's best friend. .. The witness - Donol Hedlund, Beck's putner 1n various business ventures. Who told the Senate 1nveatlptora how he and Beck had made profitable deals - recelvlng brokerage fees 1n the investment or Teamster Unlon tunda. He likewise told how the union aet up a tund to take care or the widow of a union ofrlclal, Rayaoncl Lehener, Beck's friend. Beck and Hedlund - selling a bloc or aort...- to the widow's rund. Profit - eleven thousand, tlve hundred and ninety-five dollars. MISSISSIPPI In Mlss1asipp1, the state police did a ra■t job. But, maybe, the real task of law enforcement was .-,•done - by the M1Bsiss1pp1 mosquitoes. Leading - to the solution of the diamond-jubilee-celebration bank robbery. Laurel, Mississippi, was : hai11ng them aeveu ~ y- - ~ fifth anniversary of the town's foundation A di&J10nd jubilee. When the first National Bank was held up - by a robber wearing the mask of a clown. Getting away - with ten thousand dollan. After which - the manhunt was on. A clue - given by a housewife, who had spotted a suspicious character tramping alons the road. They round him today. , Charles I.Alwrence Sullivan of Syracuae, Mew York. A tug1t1ve - wanttd by the police on .-11•~."1·' - other charges. He surrendered - eagerly, "I'm tired ot / , .... rUMing. '' Also tired - or the mosquitoes. Wandering along by day, sleeping under railroad trestles at night - the mosquitoes nearly ate him alive. Two days of this - and he waa MISSISSIPPI - 2 happy to be in jail. Two other men implicated. One - a local taxi driver. The other - an ex-convict from Alabama. Alho, it la / now disclosed - played an interesting part 1n the b~bbel'J. Entering the bank - dressed as a priest. 'ftle hold-up man 1n the clown's maak - protected by the supposed clergyman 111ong other people 1n the bank. CRIME Here's a crime story - about as fantastic as anything Ive ever had occasion to recite on the air. A murder plot in Miami - featuring a report 1n Washington. Where there was news of a Washington attorney taken to a hospital, 1n a dying condition. After a fatal beating - at the hands of a thug. Today, the police arrested a prominent Miami Beach contractor, George Laris. Charged - with plotting the IIUl'der of the Washington Lawyer - Rapond Dickey. They say - it all came about becaue of a race track 1n Puerto Rico. Laris - revengeful, because of d•llJW• with Dickey in the race track bWllness. Blaming the Washington lawyer - for squeezing him out. So he engaged a man from New York, Spiro Williama - to hire a killer. Wbo wold go to ~ash1ngton - and murder Dickey. Where1pon Williams, we are told, offered the Job to a Miami bartender, Alfred Coradi. The price of the murder- one thousand do lars. Coradi - accepting. The money to be CRIME - 2 paid - after he had killed lawyer Dickey in Washington. But, when the deal was concluded, the ' ' hired killer" got in touch with Miami police. Who told him - to ~ __. believe he was going ahead with the deal. And - they'd ~ set a trap. Which they did. Whereupon, a show u was put · on in Washington. Lawyer Dickey - in a hospital. The word given out - that he was a victim or a fatal beating. Anybody inquiring waa told - he was 1n a dying condition. Then, 1n due time, back in Miami - Coradi, the supposed "hired killer", arranged a meeting with w1111- - to collect his thousand bucks. The rendezvous - at a parked automobile. Where Williama - refused to pay more than tive hundred dollars. Half the money - oecause the murder Job was only half done. At the proper moment, the cops walked 1n - and sprung thP trap, arresting Williams. Followed - by the CRIME - 3 arrest of Laris, at his fashionable home 1n Miami Beach. Such 1s the story told by the police, who aay they have iron clad evidence - including tape e•••• recordlng■• FASHIOIS In hicago - fashions for omen 1n the year two thousand. Marshal !4'1e d - presenting styles the ladies will wear 1n tle coming era of space travel. Futuristic 1Na1e1 and hats, created y some of the leading tuh1on deslgnen. Like a costume of jet black - when lllilady goes wan4er1ng arotmd on the urtace ot the llOOl'l. Moat wondertu.l of all - an outt1t intended to show how rutur1at1e the styles will be bJ the t111e the JNI' two thousand rolls around. Designed - by an architect,•~ 1n o the world ot style. Called~ an upside dam dreas", an - 1t 1 s ul that. 'nle skirt - at the top. The bodice - at the kneN. The top of the skirt flaring ou.t at the altitude of tbe sho ders. er f eet, the model wears - a headdress ot er hea - shoes. ' .~ there o have it, a 1es, your beautiful-• ~ ,. 1 t shoes on - -- - ~,;µ..,.,LlJl,.-- 4!!,d...~ our hea and flowerf'on your f ~ upside owm dress! END - Announcer: And now Lowell Thomas recalls. L.T. I have many fond recollections of the early daya of radio. Including the time - when the networks nre Juat beginning. In New York, CBS began as a local station and then affiliated with out of town stations. Which took - ita progrua. The first CBS affiliate a - station WCAU, 1n Philadelphia. Which, today - celebrated lta thlrty-t1tth anniversary. You wttt know the proper aong to alng, and lt makes a aort of rhyme: liatlPa.aHctM1~•• 1ICMf Happy blrthda! - to you we/J II ,..., ... ,,,~,~.UV, "'..!! . ~ -et:., ~ (! ... 44 " ' - - J..., llncli, aolong until Monday. --- - -