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ARGENTINE oil lands will soon be opened up to U.S. companies. To solve his nation's chronic fuel problem (60% imported), President Juan Perón is ready to sign a deal for Standard Oil of California to develop a 23,000-sq.-mi. tract in Santa Cruz Territory south of the 48th Parallel; Standard of California will sell its oil on the domestic market first, be able to export any surplus. Similar agreements totaling $200 million will also be signed this month with Shell Oil and Standard Oil (NJ.) to develop another huge tract in the Neuquen area...
...White House President Eisenhower had the sniffles himself, and the chronic bursitis in his right shoulder was acting up enough to call for heat treatment at Walter Reed Hospital.* And when Butler's remarks reached him, his under-collar temperature shot up. Within a few hours Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty had passed the word to New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges: Ike thought Butler's comment about Mamie was a political foul...
Cambridge patrolman William Barnett said that the problem of hearses parked in front of houses for long periods of time had become a "chronic complaint." "The hearses," he said, "create a bad atmosphere...
...Director Middleton knows that his job will not get easier in the years ahead, even if the U.S. remains at peace. As the U.S.'s vast veteran population grows older, more veterans will suffer from chronic illnesses and require their country's care. Dr. Middleton can point to a historical example: U.S. outlay for Civil War veterans reached its peak in 1898, fully 33 years after Appomattox...
...Women, Robert Montgomery took time off from his week-to-week job as director of Robert Montgomery Presents (see THEATER) to star in Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend. There was far more artistry in Montgomery's careful delineation of the tortures and cravings of a chronic alcoholic than in the oversimplified happy ending. Lux Video Theater supplied another revival with John Hersey's A Bell for Adano, the prototype of all scripts about relations between lovable U.S. officers and equally lovable natives of occupied countries. Edmond O'Brien was effective as the idealistic Major Joppolo...