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Common folk in Buenos Aires could hardly believe their ears: Juan Domingo Perón had told a congressional caucus that Argentina would fight beside the U.S. if there was another war. Furthermore, he was saying that U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith was a pretty fine fellow. Qué Diablo! Had the Strong Man fallen in love with the Vanquish Well, hardly. A British trade mission or two was in town (TIME, July 8) and Perón was playing hard...
Crosses mark the 120-mile desert trail from Sonoyta, Mexico, to San Luis, Ariz. Under the crosses are the corpses of wanderers who have died along its arid and terrible wastes. In Mexico it is called "El Camino del Diablo." Last week seven new crosses were put up on the Devil's Highway...
...great burst of energy and both kinds of matter would vanish into nothing-literally nothing at all. This would explain why Soviet scientists with elaborate geophysical equipment could find no fragments of the great meteorite which smacked Central Siberia in 1908, although similar searches around Canyon Diablo, Arizona's famed meteorite crater, were successful. The Siberian meteorite was perhaps contraterrene, the Arizona meteorite of earthlike matter...
...only dull story is Duncan Longcope's "Diablo." Of more interest are poems by Timothy Claiborne and Howard Nemerov, a review of recent record releases by Holmes Welch, and a number of book reviews. In this issue the editors of the Advocate return--permanently, I hope--to the clear and very readable format used once before this year...
...fights is led by another lawyer and reader of economics, a man whose father sold the University of California its history library and who was known in his younger days as a Progressive: Philip Bancroft, a harmless-looking but sharp-spoken gentleman-farmer from in back of Mount Diablo near Oakland...