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...papal decree forbidding Catholics to vote for any candidate allied with the Communists, Sicily's imperious Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini sent Catholic Action groups from house to house warning voters against Milazzo, even attempted in vain to prevent Milazzo from joining Palermo's Corpus Christi procession fortnight ago. In the U.S., the Hearst press urged its Italian-American readers to shower Sicily with anti-Milazzo letters and telegrams; advising the use of night-rate cables, New York's Journal-American pleaded: "Even $2.75 is a small price for preserving democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Third Choice | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...soccer games and horse races 25%. Even the rate of marriages has fallen 13% because of higher costs of setting up a household. The need for dollars to buy U.S. capital goods to raise production has depressed the peso, which hit an alltime low of no a dollar a fortnight ago before climbing back to 86. But the encouragement to export, and the discouragement of imports, is getting results. In the first four months of 1959, Argentina earned $102 million more than it spent abroad-its first favorable trade balance in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Austerity for Dinner | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...attack, a moderately severe coronary occlusion, struck a fortnight ago, after Duvalier had worn himself out with a succession of 20-hour days at his desk. Just turned 50, he is also fighting diabetes and high blood pressure. To advise Duvalier's six doctors, U.S. Ambassador Gerald Drew brought in a U.S. Navy specialist in internal medicine from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and two diagnosticians from Manhattan. Drew called on the President, found him "in good spirits," complied with a presidential request for "some movies, including the one of President Eisenhower's inauguration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Hexed President | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Keeping Black out of the paper was not easy. He is a consistent newsmaker, often gets into other papers. Last month, carrying a United Press International dispatch from Raleigh that mentioned Black five times, Independent Publisher James L. Moore made five pinpoint deletions. Fortnight ago, when the other representative from Kannapolis, Dwight Quinn-supply superintendent for Cannon's mills -killed a Black-introduced bill, the Independent story named the executioner but not the victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Blackout in Kannapolis | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Running after Roscoe. Fortnight ago at the Modesto. Calif, relays, Morrow, Norton and Woodhouse trailed as chunky (5 ft. 9 in., 154 Ibs.) University of Oregon sophomore Roscoe Cook came from nowhere to pass them all and equal the world record. Cook, 20, had stage fright before the race. "I was scared," he admits. "I had to run against these greats. I just didn't think I was the material to be in the same category with those guys, but I remembered what the coach told me: 'Keep your jaw loose, relax, and drive when you see that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Assault on the Hundred | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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