Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abruptly closed the Paraguayan frontier. The reason given: a yellow-fever outbreak in Paraguay. It turned out to be malaria, but Paraguayans got the point, agreed to a customs union with Argentina. Bolivia was already on the hook: the Perón-minded Villarroel government felt strong enough to crack down on the Democratic Front opposition, jail leaders and handcuff the press. Chile, with a long Argentine frontier, read that Perón had come out for a Chile-Argentine customs union, and appointed its Foreign Minister to attend the Strong Man's inauguration...
Bernard thrills to the popular events of his decade-the Tunney-Dempsey fight, the Snyder-Gray murder. He joins in the terrible moaning of the crowd in Union Square when Sacco and Vanzetti are electrocuted. When, to his own disgust, he becomes a crack advertising salesman, he moves to what he feels are Bohemian quarters in Greenwich Village. As his income rises, his output of fiction drops proportionately...
...regime, with the Communists controlling the Ministries of War and Interior [police]. For perhaps a year the Communists will govern reasonably. When they feel they have the situation in hand, they'll start putting on the heat-limiting more and more individual rights, etc. Eventually the Socialists will crack. Half will go with the Communists, half will move to the Right. The Communists then will no longer have a majority in the Assembly. And this is where, dropping all democratic pretense, they'll try to stay in power by force-and they'll have the means...
Divorced. George Vanderbilt, 31, multimillionaire yachtsman-ichthyologist; by Lucille Parsons Vanderbilt, 29, horsewoman, crack shot; after 10½ years of marriage, one daughter; in Miami. Grounds: desertion...
Last week, before the National Academy of Sciences, Johns Hopkins' crack syphilologist, Dr. Joseph Earle Moore, trotted into the open a meager collection of recently discovered facts about penicillin (until now blanketed by wartime security): 1) instead of only one type of penicillin, there are at least four (arbitrarily named G, F, X, K); 2) type K is virtually useless because it is destroyed within the body so fast (in less than an hour) that it can't get set for a knockout punch at the germs. In trying to produce a purer form of penicillin, drug companies...