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President Juan Peron last week took steps calculated to transform his clumsy authoritarian government into an up-to-date dictatorship. With laws rammed through the closing session of Congress (43 were passed in five hours), the President did away with 1) free political discussion of himself, his wife or his regime, and 2) any future election threat to his rule...
...ends at the i a.m. curfew her mother usually succeeds in enforcing. Her column, seldom more than an hour's work, is larded with teen talk (e.g., "beau boy," "corner casbah," "coosome twosome"). Sandwiched in between chit-chat about good grooming, fads and fashions and "date data" is a thick slice of advice. Samples: "How are you going to avoid necking? . . . Simply keep away from the situations that . . . send you into a romantic mood [such as parking] on the shoreline . . . Unless you're absolutely sure how much you can drink safely . . . don't drink on a date...
...Wellesley girl has added T. S. Eliot, Sartre and Freud. In her closet she keeps a suit of red winter underwear, three "dressy" dresses and at least one evening gown. For the sake of her prestige, she must never let a week go by without at least one date (freshmen get only 15 "1 o'clocks and overnights" the first semester). Those without weekend dates often prefer to leave campus, for "the awfulness of not having a date when everyone else does," says Dean Lucy Wilson, "hangs over them constantly...
Three Times & In. Usually the date is from M.I.T. or Harvard ("practically at our doorstep"). If he doesn't take her off some place for some dancing and probably a couple of drinks, she can keep him on her campus, sit with him on a bench by the lake, or even take him to class. If she takes her "special" to Tupelo Point three times and he still hasn't proposed, she can, according to tradition, throw him into Lake Waban...
Health Minister Ancurin Bevan, leader of British labor's left wing, said yesterday a general election will be held "in a very short time on a date I don't propose to mention...