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...This is a madman's country," sighed Alvaro Alsogaray, who until six months ago had the all but hopeless job of trying to impose austerity on the Argentine economy. So it seemed last week in the once-rich land of beef and wheat. In yet another political crisis, eight more Cabinet members lost their jobs, bringing to 53 the number of Cabinet casualties in the 13 months since President Arturo Frondizi was deposed by the military. In to replace them came Cabinet members Nos. 54 through 56, with five posts still vacant. As puppet President...
...integrationist marchers who followed Moore last week were trying to finish his trip. They were not allowed to do so. Was it all just a hopeless pursuit of the impossible? In Binghamton, Mayor John J. Burns did not think so: "This taught all of us a lesson. He was scorned here. I think now we're all sorry he was. Maybe the next time someone wants to picket the courthouse, we will tolerate brave people...
...Amintore Fanfani marched his moderate Christian Democratic Party through the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) into a parliamentary partnership with the left-wing Socialists, he acknowledged the deal as a dangerous gamble. "We shall certainly have some sleepless nights," he said. By now, Fanfani must be a hopeless insomniac...
...answers; some are confident that if natural organs are in too short supply, inventive men will devise artificial parts to replace nature's. The day may come when the Tin Woodman of Oz, who wanted someone to build him a working heart, may not seem like such a hopeless case after...
...peaceful desegregation of Georgia's public schools during the past two years suggests that such achievements are possible in a supposedly hopeless situation if the people are given rational alternatives, according to a newspaperman who observed the Georgia accomplishment...