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...Fact of Peace." In general, the U.S. had no nerves about whatever delays and charges Gromyko & Co. might be brewing at Hillsborough. Before the President flew in from Washington to make his inaugural speech at the conference, the State Department took a firm grip on the events of this week. "One definite prediction can be made," said a State Department estimate of the situation. "In a matter of days the treaty will have been signed by so many allied powers . . . that there will be no doubt in any quarter as to the fact of peace or the terms of peace...
Around the Caribbean, where some governments change violently and others never seem to change at all, little Costa Rica (pop. 800,875) has the firmest grip on democracy. Its citizens like their Presidents elected, their press free, their schools strong. They feel no need for an army but will rise in arms when they must. A citizen army, under Coffee Planter Jose Figueres, fought in 1948 to stop a scheming government from keeping an elected President, Otilio Ulate, out of office. Figueres won handily, and, as promised, turned the government back to Ulate. Since then, President Ulate...
...steal the show-from Producer-Director Stevens, whose firm grip is on every foot of A Place in the Sun. Stevens' unerring timing, and his skill at filling any situation with the last shade of emotion and meaning, enable him to direct the picture at a deliberately slow pace that still weaves a spell without dragging for a moment...
...soldiers butchered thousands of Haitians who had settled on Dominican land near the Haitian border. The massacre made the regime so unpopular with other American governments that Trujillo decided to "retire" for a while, installed a puppet President for the 1938-42 term. * But the Benefactor's dictatorial grip remained as tight as ever...
...people who disagreed about a painting, where the one said, 'That's beautiful,' and the other said, 'I don't see it.'...We think him blind, whereas he thinks us credulous... and what we call doing justice to the facts he calls the grip on us of settled routines or inertia...