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Perilous Prose. Fortnight ago she gave her new Domino Furioso, with music by her Brazilian-born Pianist-Husband Bernardo Segall. As in The Desperate Heart and As I Lay Dying, she had employed a narrator. In Domino, a loose theatrical piece about Harlequins, Columbines and Pierrots who rebel against their playwright, there was more narration than choreography...
...Judge Harold R. Medina had suffered the taunts, insults and studied defiance of defense lawyers with weary patience, as they popped up like hammers on a honky-tonk piano-to protest, to object to rulings, to object to rulings on objections, to object to rulings on objections to rulings. Fortnight ago, Harold Medina, who had often talked as if he had had enough, acted at last. When the Communists' lawyers tried to outshout him, as they had so often done before, Medina peremptorily ordered them to "sit down," and had marshals see that they complied. "Your field...
...Last fortnight, puzzled by his Foreign Minister's and his Ambassador's widely divergent estimates of U.S. sentiment toward Argentina, Perón decided to find out who was right. Without bothering to consult the sensitive Bramuglia, he called Remorino home. In an early-morning session in the President's Casa Rosada office, the two men were asked to explain the difference in their views. Words passed, tempers rose. Bramuglia accused Remorino of plotting to get his job. Finally, his composure lost, the Foreign Minister used the classic Spanish obscenity about a man's mother. Then...
From Buenos Aires last fortnight, TIME Correspondent Robert Neville cabled that he would be filing an important story. In Argentina's Chamber of Deputies, Radical opponents of President Juan Perón's regime had made some sensational charges-that Perón's police force, augmented by hundreds of ex-Nazi soldiers, was torturing and brutalizing political prisoners. But Neville's story never reached TIME, nor did TIME's urgent "What happened?" messages reach Correspondent Neville. Last week, the explanation came...
Only eight months ago, Perón's censors had snipped another Neville story into senselessness. Recently, the censorship had also been extended to other U.S. newsmen. Since March, radio correspondents have been denied access to broadcasting facilities, and last fortnight the Buenos Aires newscast of the U.S. Information Service was banned for two days. At week's end, U.S. Ambassador James Bruce lodged a protest with Argentina's Foreign Office...