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...place where U.S. businessmen abroad can still flourish in a climate of high-riding free enterprise is the oil-booming republic of Venezuela, on the north coast of South America. Since 1948, when the government and the foreign-owned companies-notably Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Shell, Gulf. Socony-worked out a mutually satisfactory deal that calls, in effect, for a 50-50 split of oil profits, production has shot up to 1,800,000 bbls. a day, flooding the sparsely populated country* with $700 million a year in oil income. The gratified government has thrown the door wide open...
Violinist de Vito, a handsome, erect woman with grey hair and dark eyes, was opening-night soloist. On the concert stage, she showed her Latin dash at once, tucking her violin under her chin with a flourish, then working both hands in the air to limber them before attacking the music. Her tone had none of the acid brilliance of a Heifetz, but in roundness and warmth resembled Kreisler's. She scorned fireworks or virtuosity. "She is an artist," said one De Vito fan, "not a virtuoso." In the Vivaldi concerto last week her violin was warm and passionate...
...contrary to the public interest for publishers or librarians to determine the acceptability of a book solely on the basis of the personal history or political affiliations of the author. A book should be judged as a book. No art or literature can flourish if it is to be measured by the political views or private lives of its creators. No society of free men can flourish which draws up lists of writers to whom it will not listen, whatever they may have...
Among the poor Mexicans and Yaqui Indians of the Southwest, witches still flourish as hardily as desert cactus, and fear of their dark power is as real as the daily struggle for a living. For years there has been no more powerful bruja on either side of the border than sly, dark-haired Maria Concepcion Estrella Miranda, leading practitioner of the occult in dusty Guadalupe, Ariz. (pop. 850). Few in Guadalupe did not believe that she could cause sickness or death simply by sticking bobby-pins with little doughball heads into any of the 200-odd photographs she kept secreted...
...notable not because of style or flourish, but because it successfully projected into a divided world the universal philosophy of the U.S. It spoke a regard for liberty as well as peace, for justice as well as hope, for freedom as well as security. Thus, in the broad framework of the kind of "true and total peace" the U.S. stands for, the President could set down-as the free world had never set down be fore-the kind of terms which such peace demands from Communism...