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German-descended Artillery Officer Stroessner, 47, grabbed power in Paraguay six years ago and has ruled since by blackjack and gun butt. With his powerful neighbors, his policy has been the historic Paraguayan strategy of playing one against the other. At first, Paraguay favored Brazil, but when Argentine Dictator Juan Perón in 1953 offered an "economic integration" treaty, Stroessner (then all-powerful army chief) gave preference to Argentina. Perón was toppled in 1955 (he took exile in Paraguay at first), and Argentina's succeeding revolutionary regime turned on a cold war. Stroessner promptly let himself...
...cannot stand alone and his speech is slow and slurred. But his detractors charge that this unimpressive man with the nervous simper controls some of the more unattractive operations of Rhee's high-handed administration. They point to his post as honorary chairman of the green-shirted, blackjack-toting Anti-Communist Youth Corps whose members act as the Liberal Party's strong-arm boys. Critics also charge that Lee has long served as the party's go-between for businessmen attempting to obtain government loans...
...Benson's Black Sunday he was in Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, convalescing from a gall bladder operation and brooding about the campaign by high-level Republicans to dump him as a political liability. The day before, Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton had dropped a blackjack hint that Benson ought to "step down" for " the good of the party (TIME, Dec. 21). In G.O.P. inner councils there had even been discussion of the possibilities of persuading the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to call Mormon Apostle Benson back home to Salt Lake City...
...least the next two months, hard-punching Duffy, who once drew Franklin D. Roosevelt's arm brandishing a blackjack over the U.S. Supreme Court, will fill in for the Post's liberal (and two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner) Cartoonist Herbert Lawrence ("Herblock") Block, 50, decommissioned last September by a heart attack. For a while the Post got along by running the work of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Bill Mauldin and others, but Post Publisher Philip Graham decided that Herblock needed a fulltime pinch hitter. Herblock agreed. "He went madly for the idea," said Graham...
...alltime high tide of lobbyists (400 Teamsters, 200 from the A.F.L.-C.I.O., other hundreds of grey flanneled N.A.M. and U.S. Chamber of Commerce men) had swept into Washington to join the struggle. Some of the labor persuaders unwittingly played into Halleck's hands by trying to use blackjack tactics on Congressmen. "If you vote for the Landrum bill," one bakers' union man warned New York's liberal Republican John Lindsay, "we're going to have to work you over in 1960." Lindsay, outraged at such tactics, changed his nay decision to solid support for the Landrum...