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...democracy. He turned Congress into a Peronista rubber stamp, had it impeach and convict the balky Supreme Court. In a rewritten "social-justice" constitution, he legalized the re-election of Presidents for his own benefit, gave the state power to "intervene in the economy." He deluged the country with billboard propaganda: "Peron Fulfills, Evita Dignifies." With malicious glee he seized Buenos Aires' La Prensa, long famed as one of the world's topflight newspapers, turned it into a mouthpiece for the C.G.T. And with engaging buffoonery, he joked at his own career: "As the man who fell from...
...Billboard Battle...
...BILLBOARD BAN along new 41,000-mile U.S. interstate highway network will be asked by Eisenhower Administration. Plan is to withdraw some of federal road-building subsidy from states that refuse to pass laws requiring a 750-ft. sign-free area on both sides of the road. But plan will get fight from unions, sign companies, motels and farmers who rent land for billboards...
...sickening. When you say an admitted stream of carnal suggestiveness is fit for your readers' attention because it is expertly served up, you insult your reader's moral integrity by implying that he has none. Elia Kazan may have had puritanic motives, but look at the lewd billboard and newspaper ballyhoo that sings the seductive praises of Baby Doll. Who's kidding whom...
Other leaders: ABC-Paramount, Cricket. Peter Pan. The basic types of children's records-called "kidisks" by Billboard: ¶ Stories with music, usually a familiar fairy tale with its teeth pulled: e.g., the wolf doesn't eat Little Red Riding Hood; Snow White's stepmother sends her to the woods, but not to be executed. ¶ Pop songs with a "kiddie beat." i.e., reduced intensity, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, or Sixteen Tons, its lyrics altered to explain that coal is mined so that houses can be heated. ¶ Educational or uplift records such...