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...ends of the earth to record the great and the near-great of our times, and their adventures would fill a column many times the length of this one. Today the MARCH OF TIME produces La Marcha del Tiempo in Spanish and Portuguese for Latin America and La M ar che dti Temps in French for Belgium, France and the French Empire. It plays regularly in Canada, Britain, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, India (300 theaters) and Egypt (with subtitles in native languages). And here at home it is seen every month by an audience...
Alarmist's Holiday. In Stamford, Conn., although Fireman William J. Dowling was off duty, he turned up at each of seven false-alarm trips, was then ar rested for turning in all seven himself...
Newly democratic Guatemala's university students went on a long-awaited rampage last week. Fourteen years ago Dictator Jorge Ubico had savagely suppressed their traditional Eastertide "Huelga Estudiantil" (Students' Strike); now at last, in the liberal light of President Juan José Arévalo's regime, it roared its way through the laugh-hungry city. Now there was at least twice the oldtime noise, fun, bawdiness...
President Arévalo. His enemies had whispered that he was pro-Argentine because of his long exile in Argentina. So the "strike" featured Gaucho costumes. With a syrupy Argentine accent, a student representing the President wooed a girl named "Guayaba" (tropical fruit, slang for the Presidency). When Guayaba hiked her skirts, she showed a label: "The Treasury." President Arévalo himself watched and laughed...
Since Mexico for centuries was a cultural crossroads between two continents, its art is actually the native art of Amer ica. To eyes accustomed to European art (notably the 39 U.S. delegates who ar rived in Mexico City last week for the Inter-American Conference), it is some times shocking - sometimes repulsive...