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...Peronistas soon went to work-as they had on La Prensa-totting up a trumped-up "customs bill" of 17 million pesos that the paper was supposed to owe the government. If La Naión steps out of line, it can be expropriated by the government, which could assess the paper's value at the amount of the bill due, thus take it over without paying a cent. But La Naión has been careful not to step too far out of line. Recently, when the paper agreed to a Peronista "suggestion" that it run an editorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Price of Courage | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...82nd Congress, which concluded a ten-month session last week, has a mixed and contradictory record, hard to assess in the familiar pattern of two-party politics. In fact, Congress in 1951 demonstrated a marked further decline in the two-party system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE 82nd CONGRESS: AN APPRAISAL | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...Star-Times's 48-man staff worked around the clock on the big story. When the Star needed a detail map to show the destruction of the industrial district, Cub Reporter Bob Beason went into the water and waded and swam from building to building to assess damage. Reporter Bill Blair and Photographer Bob Youker persuaded a passing Army amphibious truck to ferry them about, were arrested for their enterprise; their soldier-chauffeur and truck were AWOL from Fort Leavenworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Get Up & Go | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...Lesson," of course, is fearfully modern and different, and hence it is almost impossible to assess. I found it very interesting. Nellhaus' translation appears to be excellent: certainly the play emerges in English as well worth reading, and its poetry is smooth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Shelf | 3/22/1951 | See Source »

...extremely difficult to assess the present student body sentiment on draft priorities. I hope the letter by Mr. Sawyer does not indicate a sentiment that because a man goes to one of the best schools in the county, he should be given a job behind the front lines. The only conceivable criterion for a allocating manpower, in the first place is to put trained or potential ability where it will do the most good. I am sure that Mr. Sawyer would agree to this principle. Yet, I am still uneasy about a possible common feeling that income, class, or academic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why We Fight | 1/17/1951 | See Source »

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