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...need of a scapegoat to blame for his inflation troubles, Juan Perón last week scrapped his recent policy of sweet forbearance to the U.S. (adopted after President Eisenhower's inauguration) and took a running dive back on to his old, angry anti-U.S. line. In his annual message to the reconvening Congress, Peron accused U.S. press services of an "infamous campaign of lies" to spread the idea that Argentina is undergoing a crisis. (A bomb, the eighth in Buenos Aires that day, burst one block from the Congress building while he was speaking.) That afternoon...
...other subjects that modern test pilots need, Bill is what Californians approvingly call a "beach bum." He lives in a small, pleasant shack squeezed between the Pacific Coast Highway and the rocky shore two miles north of Monica. He swims, water-skis, sails, chases fish underwater with a spear, dives for spiny lobsters in the kelp beds, pries abalones off rocks. In quiet moments he sits on his porch, a high dive from the water, and feeds bagels to sea gulls. It is a pleasant life for a relaxing warrior, but always some odd airplane is waiting behind the mountains...
Biographer Bascom Timmons, veteran Washington correspondent, uses these as springboards to dive into the deeper waters of the man's character and career as lawyer, banker, statesman, philanthropist and Coolidge's Vice President. Unfortunately, Author Timmons spends most of his time splashing around amid the floating debris of Dawes's public speeches and old nespaper headlines. The Impact of Portrait of an American is not so much that of memorable biography as that of a memorable man who put "Is it right?" before "Will...
...Donovan in a try for the world's record. Except for two bad turns they might have had it, too. Their time was 2:48.4--1.3 off the record of Ohio State but two seconds under the other records set by recent Yale teams. Dillingham's last competitive dive in the Blockhouse earned him four eights and a seven from the judges, and second place behind Owen Davies of Navy, the defending champion. Davies accumulated 168.27 points to Dillingham's 161.55. Ken Welch of Yale, who took the low board title Friday, was third with 158.59 points...
Three meter dive--Won by Davies, Navy; 2, Dillingham, H; 3, Welch, Y; 4, Davis, Navy; 5, Christie, Princeton. Points...