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...Western European politics as any reporter on the continent. He picked up his knowledge of the American idiom by virtue of some years spent in San Francisco, where his father was French Consul, his unquenchable enthusiasm for American baseball as a sports reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle. A fortnight ago he renewed both of these Americanisms during a visit here for conversations with our editors before returning to Paris to cover the reconvening of the U.N. Security Council there...
Scarce newsprint, now imported and sold only by the government, has been Peron's strongest leverage on the press, but publishers have also been harassed by special labor rules. Last fortnight, for example, Congress boosted wages of all newspaper employees...
President José Luis Bustamante, harassed by recurring political crises, promptly suspended all civil rights. The revolt, he declared, had been the work of his onetime friends and present enemies, the militantly leftist (but anti-Marxist) Apristas, whom he had already blamed for last fortnight's rash of strikes, and much of the country's political unrest...
...North Carolina's tobacco belt last week, tongues were wagging with happiness and hope. At last, the state had an iron-jawed, copper-bellied football team that combed its hair with lightning and ate opposing tackles for breakfast. First crack out of the box, a fortnight ago, the ferocious University of North Carolina Tar Heels took Texas apart...
Making Americans. When he dedicated Stepinac High last fortnight, Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, who is U.S. Catholicism's most influential leader, wove into his speech every overtone of the Catholic parochial system. In his first sentence he called the school "the full embodiment of the great and generous spirit that is America." Then he praised the prelate for whom he had named it, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac* of Yugoslavia, railroaded to jail by Tito in 1946, as "the victim of godless Communism and a martyr to the ideals that Americans revere and cherish. He is the symbol...