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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberty-loving Uruguayans are proud of the unafraid and unaffected ways of their Presidents, who often drive their own cars, take their coffee in public places, without escort. Uruguay's new President, modest, serious Luis Batlle Berres (TIME, Aug. 11), follows the tradition. He has no bodyguard; there are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Freedom's Risks | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

In the streets of Mexico City, near the chamber of deputies, chauffeurs turned up the radios in cabinet ministers' cars and little knots of people gathered around to listen. All over the Republic, in the village plazas and city zócalos, Mexicans gathered near the loudspeakers to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Report to the Nation | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

In the head-on crash, No. 4's steel held, but the special's wooden cars burst into a knot of wreckage. Shattered gas lights and exploding gas tanks beneath the ancient coaches spread fire the train's length, set two nearby grain elevators ablaze, leaped to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: MANITOBA: Death at Dugald | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

¶High brass found that it really preferred to ride the trains between Viareggio and Leghorn, instead of commuting in staff cars.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Indications | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

People called Milt a tom-walker† because he lost a leg marching through Georgia with Sherman, and thereafter wore a peg strapped to the stump. One day in 1866, when he was barely 17, Milt swung himself off the steam cars at Cincinnati and hobbled off to see his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bridegroom Got Drunk | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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