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Argentina, once the domain of Pérez Jiménez' friend Juan Perón, last week stepped up its drive to get Perón kicked out of his Venezuelan exile-and out of the hemisphere. The Argentine ambassador presented carefully documented proof that Perón was violating the rules of asylum, conducting an espionage and sabotage network from his Caracas apartment. Pérez Jiménez angrily rejected the Argentine protest, abruptly recalled his ambassador from Buenos Aires, and declared the Argentine ambassador persona non grata. Argentina responded by suspending diplomatic relations with Venezuela...
...recent years, professors have also spent increasing amounts of time working in the public domain as political advisers, government officials, and advisers to private industry. Rather than a luxury, this practice has come to be considered an important and worthwhile part of the academic life. As one Government professor said, these jobs are the "raw material" of the text books...
Irving J. Levine, tight-lipped president of K & L Beverage Co., told how he and Beck sweet-talked St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch into giving Levine's company the sole distributorship of Budweiser in Seattle, and later in other areas of Beck's domain of Washington and Alaska. Then, said Levine, Dave Beck Jr. and a partner each put up $24,500 for a total of 49% interest in K & L, and Dave Jr. became vice president of the company. Two years later, Mrs. Dave Beck Sr. paid Levine $40,000 for a 40% interest...
...chief collaborator. For decades his Berber warriors had helped impose French wishes on the restive Arabs of the cities, and engineered the exile of Sultan Mohammed V. His power was feudal; his revenues, ranging from levies on Marrakech's prostitutes to commissions on every commercial transaction in his domain, had made him rich beyond any man's dreams...
...simplest way for an advertiser to get music for his commercials is to take it free from the public domain, e.g., Rheingold Beer's current use of the Banana Boat Song. The sponsor may also buy commercial rights to hit melodies. The fees run into thousands of dollars in the case of composers such as Cole Porter, who leased his It's De-Lovely to De Soto. At first, songwriters resisted this practice, but now many of them welcome it. They not only share the fees with their publishers, but they get regular ASCAP...