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Students in the course were asked to appraise Cunningham's articles, starting with that of April 24th, and to analyze them for contents; "Inaccuracies, deliberate and conscious, unfounded assumptions, circular arguments and non-sequiturs, and for emotional language intended to obscure the issue," and then for style; in "Jargon, bombast, 'fine writing' and wordiness...
This week Tamborini supporters taunted the Strong Man's descamisados (shirtless ones) with a timely twist on Juan Domingo Peron's middle name and the Sunday, Feb. 24 election date: "Domingo [Spanish for Sunday] will fall on the 24th...
...Then came the 24th Division to Matsuyama. Kindhearted G.I.s brought the Spanish missionary food and clothing. One lieutenant from the Engineers rounded up a few volunteers, built a hut from scrap lumber and installed a makeshift stove. From somewhere an Army cot and blankets for the nuns appeared. Best of all, a few bags of Australian flour were produced. . . . Father Perez faced the winter with confidence...
...Rumania, next on Ethridge's calling list, politicians cooked up another warm welcome. Opposition parties stiffened their attitudes toward Premier Peter Groza's Russian-sponsored regime. The Government showed uneasiness on uncooperative King Mihai's 24th birthday, seized Liberal and Peasant party leaders, held them for hours. Otherwise the Groza cabinet continued to ignore the King, passed decrees over his head...
...24th Floor. The crisis between the world's biggest union and the world's biggest automaker would not be settled in Detroit. It would be settled high up on the 24th floor of G.M.'s building near Manhattan's Columbus Circle. There, in the paneled office of G.M.'s board chairman, Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., all G.M. problems eventually come home to roost...