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...tough-minded efficiency. They serve on the nine-man Council of Government, whose rotating chairman is Uruguay's equivalent to President. Nardone, the current chairman, and Haedo, who takes over March 1, together pushed through a successful program to save the country from spiraling inflation. To avoid the feast-or-famine trade cycles associated with wool, traditionally Uruguay's No. 1 export, Nardone and Haedo began by modernizing cattle ranching and saw 1960 meat exports more than double the 1959 total. Next they aimed at crippling strikes, set up a government arbitration board that increased some obviously...
...consuming appetite: it took him six years, from 1945 to 1951, to swallow the Jersey City Jersey Journal, and he is still trying diligently to enlarge the 15% bite he took in the Denver Post last June.* Right after Denver, hungry Sam Newhouse invited himself to a newspaper feast in Springfield, Mass. But by last week his New England dinner was biting back...
Since the opening of a splendid new theatre is a festive occasion, the following remarks about the performance will look like the death's head at a feast...
Spain's aging Generalissimo Franco dressed up recently in his fanciest uniform and medals to pay a visit to his home region of Galicia on the occasion of the annual feast in La Coruña to the Virgin of the Rosary. La Coruña's clergy had always treated Franco as a favorite son and made much of him; this time Franco sat in the church, unmentioned by the officiating cardinal archbishop. It was an obvious and obviously calculated slight...
...born Canadian Novelist Brian Moore, 38, knows Ginger well; his literary career has been devoted to lives that would be sorry farces if they were not sadder truths. Moore's Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne worried an old maid's wasted years in cruel whispers. In The Feast of Lupercal, he basted a 37-year-old virgin schoolmaster who knew less of sex than his students. While its plot is more forced than forceful, The Luck of Ginger Coffey dyes its boy-man hero in the rich Moore pigments of humor, poignance and irony...