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...first two days in Buenos Aires, Miller spent 12½ hours chewing the diplomatic fat with Peron. In fluent Spanish he told the President plainly that as long as his regime continued to whittle away civil liberties and chop down the independent press, close relations between the U.S. and Argentina would be difficult. Peron switched the subject to Communism and repeated his old phrase that Argentina would come to the aid of the U.S. in any war with Russia. "But Mr. President," replied Miller, "our problem right now is to prevent...
With the air of a Borgia guest spurning a poisoned chop, John L. Lewis rejected President Truman's proposal for a yo-day truce and a three-man fact-finding board to settle the eight-month-old coal dispute. Wrote Lewis: "The mineworkers do not wish three strangers, however well-intentioned, but necessarily ill-informed, to fix their Wages, decree their working conditions, define their living standards and limit the educational opportunities of their children...
What's wrong with the human face? Nothing, says Pablo Picasso, not a thing. Two eyes, a nose and a mouth are nice in themselves; furthermore it is great fun to add and subtract them, multiply and divide, maul, chop, smear, twist and shred them...
...Keen's English Chop House in Manhattan introduced the "Viand Visualizer," a refinement of the old-fashioned stereoscope. Instead of a menu, the customer gets the visualizer and a bunch of slides, picks himself a three-dimensional, "Technicolored" meal...
...been given time to do a gradual job, there was not much doubt that the Navy could have melted away $353 million in fat without nicking the muscle. But by demanding the cutback immediately, Johnson had forced the Navy to chop away at the only big target in sight. As a result, Louis Johnson's big plans for economy were beginning to look more like a blueprint for disarmament. Wrote Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop last week: "Wartime control of the Mediterranean has probably now been cast away . . . The security of the United States and the safety...