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Most U.S. citizens still look on Latin America as a backward land of revolutions, strong men and cloak & dagger conspirators. In the July Foreign Affairs, a State Department planner who signs himself "Y,"* argues thoughtfully that surface appearances are misleading; beneath their often tempestuous politics, the Latin American nations are going forward toward orderly, democratic government. Writes...
...objective, said Wilson. Both G.M. and the U.A.W., he added, accept the principle. Another cardinal principle of free enterprise is to earn good profits by efficiency and progress, and not by "just collecting a toll . . . Some [people], reluctant to face competition, seem to use free enterprise talk as a cloak for a little extra selfishness...
...cloak, said Dennis Chavez, is Senator Joe McCarthy's key witness, ex-Communist editor-turned-convert, Louis Francis Budenz, "who has now been elevated to the unique position of America's No. 1 professional witness in all matters concerning loyalty, patriotism and political reliability." Actually, said Chavez cuttingly, Budenz had led a life of "bawdy personal excesses," had three children by his present wife before marrying her in 1945, and had been arrested 21 times "before he joined the Communists in 1935 at the tender...
...Under the command of cloak-&-dagger Commando Fitzroy (Escape to Adventure) Maclean (TIME...
...inches tall, looked like a cross between a double-bladed ax-head and a woman, probably represented the mother goddess whose cult once encompassed the Mediterranean world. Later representations kept the same silhouette but added more human details: a huge head balanced on a towering neck and a cloak spread to resemble wings...