Word: antonios
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...story on Edward R. Murrow with the comment that TV journalism as a whole is not much good despite its Kcasional brilliance. Please do not be too lard on it. To really appreciate TV network-news shows-and TIME-a person must live in a provincial town like San Antonio. Were it not for TV and radio, we would have to wait a week to learn anything about events other than who shot whom in what tavern...
...Pedro Andrés Gomiz, former director of the nationalized Argentine oil industry. But it was two others who were most remembered back in Argentina. One was boyishly handsome Guillermo Patricio Kelly, top bullyboy of Perón's street-fighting Alianza greyshirts. The other was Jorge Antonio, biggest moneyman of Perón's regime...
Unlocked Door. The son of a penniless Syrian immigrant, Jorge Antonio parlayed a friendship with Perón's brother-in-law into a personal fortune close to $215 million. After Perón's downfall in 1955, Antonio and his five friends were packed off to a remote jail 170 miles from the continent's mainland tip. A special warden was assigned to foil escape attempts-at a salary of $86 a month. Jorge took care of that. One night last March the special warden unlocked the prison gates and discreetly disappeared; Jorge and friends...
...they waited in a Santiago jail for the final decision on their asylum appeal, Antonio's cash quickly eased the rigors of incarceration. The cells were provided with comfortable beds; there was wine aplenty, after-hours dinner parties for their friends, and free use of the penitentiary telephones. Jorge & Co. paid some of Chile's highest-priced lawyers at least $56,000 to fight Argentina's extradition attempts...
Little Caesar. Giving orders in New York gangdom was one unwieldy bird named Antonio Corallo, known to cronies and cops as Tony Ducks-a title bestowed in praise of his ability to avoid convictions on all but two of his twelve arrests since 1929. A beefy, movie-style heavy, Tony Ducks keeps no bank accounts, buys no property in his own name, often meets his confederates at 5 a.m. (to avoid detection), assigns one of his boys to tail any detective found to be tailing Tony Ducks. One employer, said Committee Counsel Kennedy, hired Tony Ducks just to come into...