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Karl Earl Mundt, 53, acting committee chairman, South Dakota's senior Senator, once before was an acting chairman during a dramatic episode: in 1948, when the pumpkin film in the Alger Hiss case was disclosed, he was head of the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator-elect, having won his promotion with the help of the Hiss case. Mundt. who was a teacher for 13 years, has a schoolteacher's patient manner. Now, torn between his allegiance to the Administration and his friendship for McCarthy, Karl Mundt obviously needs all his patience. In his opening remarks last...
...reward,'' noted the Manchester Guardian, "but there is nothing more improbable in politics than that Mr. Bevan will succeed." Bitterest of all was the Laborite tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000): "Again he has shown that the greatest blunder the party could make would be to elect him leader . . . For who can follow a whirlwind? How can a man who does not give loyalty expect to command loyalty from others...
...meager development of its oil resources on the conservation policies of his opposition when it held power, Nationalist Perón announced that he was going to let foreigners "extract oil and Deliver it to us." When the producer gets the oil out, Perón VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT TEISAIRE Also a vote from Eva Perón. explained, "I will come and say 'Hey! Hold on, boy. Now it's mine!' He will say it cost him money . . . Then I will pay him what it has cost." Thirty thousand Peronistas cheered lustily...
...typical descamisado ("shirtless one"), the Vice President-elect is a graduate of Argentina's Naval College and U.S. Navy submarine and destroyer schools (he speaks idiomatic English). He was a professional naval officer until 1944. when he was made Navy Minister. Two years later he got into politics. Now 63, he is a top Peronista Party official. Because the election made him Argentina's No. 2 man, high officials gathered at Government House in a festive mood to congratulate him. One minister termed the voting "brilliant...
Heart specialists have been derelict in their duty to medical science and in many cases to their patients, one of their own number suggested last week at a Chicago meeting of the American Heart Association. Though he was speaking at his installation as president-elect, Dr. Irvine H. Page of the Cleveland Clinic wasted no time on the usual banalities...