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...begged that U.N.'s "moral judgment ... be backed with the power of enforcement ... to expel the invader from our territory." His tense face relaxed a little as, in quick succession, France's Chauvel, Britain's Sir Terence Shone, China's Tsiang, Cuba's Carlos Blanco, Norway's Arne Sunde and Ecuador's Jose Correa supported the U.S. resolution...
...Reliable. In London, Court Commissioner Blanco White decided that professional Knife Thrower Ralph Noakes was not guilty of cruelty when he heaved a storm lantern at his wife, partner in his vaudeville act: "A first-class shot would not have missed her with a storm lantern if he had meant...
Ricardo De Blanco, a Texan with lavish tastes and enough oil wells to gratify them, was quite pleased with the diamond-buckled gold belt which Dallas' Linz Bros, had sold him "to wear with slacks." But his pet grey poodle, Toto, was troubled: his unruly hair kept tumbling into his eyes. Could Linz Bros, make Toto happy, too? It could, indeed. Last week, having fixed Toto's bangs with a set of silver barrettes (and a $250 diamond-studded white-gold set for Sundays), Linz Bros, was designing a Western-style dog collar for De Blanco...
...Cover) In the center of Mexico City squats a vast, magnificently ugly edifice of white marble, imported block by block from Italy. Officially it is the Palace of Fine Arts, but mexicanos call it the elefante blanco and point out, with mingled pride and disdain, that the ponderous thing is slowly sinking, of its own weight, into the city's soft subsoil...
...army officers rummaged endlessly through Calhoun's luggage, even split open the linings of his bags. Then they searched his pockets. When they found the newspaper clippings, they smiled in triumph. The clippings were from the Havana weekly Bohemia. Among them was an article by Andres Eloy Blanco, Foreign Minister in the ousted Gallegos regime. It described an exchange of letters between Harry Truman and Gallegos on U.S. recognition of the military junta that overthrew Gallegos. * To the representatives of Venezuela's revolutionary government, such a document was subversive...