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...made time for the interview in one of his busiest weeks. It was Argentina's annual army week, the 133rd anniversary of independence from Spain. There was a three-hour-long parade, followed by wreath-laying ceremonies, honorary reviews and state receptions. The two guests of honor, General Canrobert Pereira da Costa, Brazil's war minister, and Lieut. General Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of U.S. forces in the Caribbean, both got decorations...
...Angeles at Pacific Press, the largest printing plant west of Chicago. And, in keeping with the spectacular growth of Southern California, TIME Inc.'s Los Angeles bureau now consists of 25 reporters, photographers, etc. As such, it is second only to Washington, D.C. as our largest and busiest U.S. news bureau...
...lips. Shrilly Wu shouted: "Long live Sun Yat-sen!" He sang China's national anthem. Then police boosted Wu and his comrades into an open truck. On each man's back was a white placard noting his crime. Sirens wailing, the truck rumbled through Shanghai's busiest streets to a dusty alley on the outskirts. The condemned were yanked down, lined up. Executioners fired pistol shots into the backs of their heads...
...same story all over Western Europe. For years the busiest black market in Rome was sunny Piazza Colonna, just 50 yards from the heavily guarded Chamber of Deputies. One young operator sadly admitted that in two months the dollar had dropped from 711 to 614 lire (legal rate: 570). "Spring always does this to us," he rationalized. "It can't last. People are just optimistic...
Finnish Communists were busily echoing the Moscow propaganda. Busiest of all was Comrade Hertta Kuusinen, who last fall left her Communist husband, former Interior Minister Yrjö Leino, for his alleged Titoist leanings. Hertta is rapidly emerging as the leader of Finnish Communism. Washington guessed that Russia's propaganda offensive was designed chiefly to help Hertta and her comrades, tossed out of Finland's government last summer, to get back into power again...