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...American war stories and mistakes rarely have American settings. We cannot begin to understand what anguish means to the peasant whose life was ravaged in every facet by a defense of an indefensible regime...
...election. His succession could be decided by the Peronist-controlled Congress, in which case Isabelita could conceivably be passed over for the vice presidency. Clearly, the new era of Perón has begun with more questions than answers. Yet it is a measure of the country's anguish that uncertainty can be a source of solace. "The only hopeful thing about the present situation," says an Argentine intellectual, "is that everything is unexpected...
...short months, finding at long last after endless and fatiguing hours of aspirations, national limelight and recognition, finding its way on the cover of Parade and onto WideWorld of Sport, out-publicizing the publicity mongers from Harry Parker's den of masculinity, reaching parity from the pure sweat and anguish of eleven months of looking at the same back and tugging the same oar, braving New England winter temperature an July humidity in an inexorable quest for Moscow. Radcliffe crew, which attained Moscow in the nick of time, finishing up one season a month before the next would begin, closing...
...part, the improvement constitutes a painful paradox: some of the same factors that are causing economic anguish within the U.S. are easing the aches abroad. The dollar devaluations have caused prices of imports to climb, but they have made U.S. products more competitive in world markets. Worldwide bidding for scarce commodities is shooting up prices, aggravating inflation in the U.S. and elsewhere, but also spurring exports and thus American income from foreign sales. Soaring U.S. interest rates are wounding borrowers inside the country, but also bringing home dollars that formerly fled overseas seeking higher investment yields. This repatriation of American...
...workers and peasants regularly clog the streets in Chile's capital, Santiago, to demonstrate their support for their Allende government, but their voices are never heard in the United States. Yet let a handful of middle class women bang some cooking pots and wail about prices, and cries of anguish about the subversion of Chilean liberties emanate from sensible American observers...