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Argentina's Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia had saved his surprise for the last minute. Diplomats had expected that Argentine insistence on a veto would drag out the drafting of a hemispheric defense treaty at the Rio Conference that opens this week (TIME, Aug. 11). But just before boarding ship for Rio, Bramuglia made a startling announcement: his country would bow to majority decisions after all. Maybe there was more to Juan Perón's current "peace offensive" than the pundits had thought...
...schoolteacher than a road-gang boss, said that the trouble had started out on the highway when the convicts refused to work. He said that he had intended only to punish the ringleaders. He was defiant: "I got a right to knock 'em in the head and drag 'em to the hot box if I can't put 'em in anyways else." But he insisted that he had not fired until a Negro lunged for him, grabbing at his revolver...
...casual meetings. But his older relatives seemed to find Philip more interesting than Elizabeth did. King George and Philip had long chats about the Navy. At Queen Mary's wartime home at Badminton House, the Queen Mother and her young cousin would spend hours lopping off branches to drag home for fuel...
From that point upward, says Lockheed's Designer Clarence Johnson, "the drag curve is almost vertical." No matter how much power is applied, the P-80R will fly only a little faster...
...kind of top-grade personal secretary whq works a 168-hour week. Edmond O'Brien shows enough honest heelishness, and little enough hard-boiled mawkishness, to be one of the most likable of the tough young thriller heroes who move into Evil's den and drag it out by the short hair...