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Before he became an able and aggressive labor leader, Cipriano Reyes was a circus tight-rope walker, packinghouse worker and longshoreman. An early Peronista, he helped the president to power, later he broke with Perón. Through his leadership of the small but active Laborista party he turned to fighting Peronista control of labor. From Buenos Aires last week leaked an account of how a man with such savvy and background could be sucked into a futile conspiracy: Perón's police had mousetrapped...
...average-size football players. There is Jim Dieckleman, a 5-foot-9, 192-pound end who starred in the 1945 Holy Cross-Boston College game, and won the Edward O'Melia trophy for his performance. The other end is Tom Kelleher who shines on defense and specializes in circus catches of the forward pass...
Facing this Republican circus act is Estes Kefauver, who practically exhausted his campaign funds this summer in the primary, where he beat out Senator Tom Stewart, the Crump candidate. Crump has been sulking ever since, and his recent espousal of the States' Rights party is probably as much a fit of pique at Kefauver and Democratic regulars as a wily effort to repair his fading fortunes. In view of these unusual factors, what will happen in Tennessee is anybody's guess, but Republican hopes there are as high as an elephant's eye, even if it has taken the peculiar...
President Juan Perón last week staged the most remarkable public circus of his spectacular career. His show had a little of everything. In the early hours of Thursday morning radio bulletins began shrilling news of a conspiracy to murder Perón. The assassination, broadcasters cried, was to have occurred on the "Day of the Race," Oct. 12, at an opera gala in the gilt-and-plush Teatro Colón. His wife, blonde Eva Duarte Perón, was to have been killed with...
...shall now have this week's spelling lesson, courtesy of Sunday's New York Times. Question: How do you spell "circus"? Answer: p-s-o-l-q-u-o-i-s-e. Explanation: Pronounce "ps" as you would in psychology, "olo" as you would in colonel, "qu" as you would in bouquet, and "oise" as you would in tortoise. Put them all together, they spell mother. Or possibly cholmondley...