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Berlin, a city of 340 square miles and 3,500,000 people, is an island. But the world has not passed it by. Instead, the forces and philosophies and fears that bat each other about the world, converge on this one spot...
Despite the two first period B.U. goals, the Yardlings dominated play and failed to score only because Terrier goalie Ralph Vito and his steady defense managed to control dangerous rebounds. Time after time, Copeland, McVey, Bob Cleary, and Bob Owen sent scorchers at the cage, but invariably failed to bat in the rebound...
...Your Excellency," the usual form of address for Latin American Presidents, is banned by law in democratic Uruguay; "Mr. President" is thought to be title enough. Luis Batlle (pronounced Bat-zhay) Berres, the next President of Uruguay's Swiss-style National Council and therefore the country's top man, is definitely the mister type. During an earlier presidential term, explaining that "it's ridiculous for me to have guards," he modestly removed policemen from duty at his little farm just outside Montevideo. The disconcerting result was not an assassination attempt but the theft of 50 chickens...
...largely a matter of fixing the numbers in voters' minds by poster and paintpot. Of all the 277, no figure was more conspicuous, from the River Plate's beaches to the remotest pampas, than 15, the Colorado faction of jaunty ex-President (1947-50) Luis Batlle (pronounced Bat-zhay) Berres...
...Casey at the Bat" [TIME, Nov. 15]: Being an Irishman, or partly one, I find it slightly painful [that] Sean O'Casey . . . respects a political organization which has slain and tortured uncounted millions all over their world-with their "inexhaustible energy, the irresistible enthusiasm of their Socialist efforts" . . . O'Casey may be a "roguish wordmonger," but so was Goebbels and Pravda ... He is entertaining, but he is also bitter . . . There is too much of his "failing desires" to make him palatable to anyone who knows there...