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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong today as when the army booted the dictator four years ago. The Peronistas still burn candles to Peron's late wife, Eva, whom they call "St. Eva Immortal.'' They control 88 out of 138 trade unions and with their 2,000,000 votes can swing close elections (as they did in Frondizi's favor last year...
...D.S.O. he won) as a major of Quebec's famed Royal 22nd Regiment (the "Van Doos") at Cherisy in World War I. In Paris, where Vanier was Canada's admired postwar ambassador (1945-53), he is remembered as a sort of Canadian Charles de Gaulle (they are close friends...
...Samuel Barber's Second Essay for Orchestra, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5. Afterward, Shostakovich rushed to the stage to embrace Lenny. Pasternak went backstage to kiss Lenny, cried: "You have taken us up to heaven. I've never felt so close to the esthetic truth. When I hear you, I know why you were born." Said Lenny: "I adore this...
...soft-top models. Studebaker also added a four-door, eight-passenger Lark station wagon that will list for $2,175, not counting taxes and transport. Optimistically, President Harold Churchill forecast that Studebaker's market will wing up by one-third in 1960, lifting Lark sales close...
...postwar recessions. Last week the Commerce Department announced that spending for new plant and equipment will hit an annual clip of $35.4 billion in the fourth quarter (against a 1957 peak rate of $38 billion and a 1958 slump low of $30 billion); many crystal-bailers see a pace close to $40 billion in 1960. "Here's what will happen next," says Vice President Russell H. Metzner of Cleveland's Central National Bank. "The cost of living will rise. Hard goods will be immediately affected because a bigger share of consumer spending will go to the cost...