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...Buenos Aires' tabloid Clarin. In Cordoba, inspectors found the printing plant of the firmly anti-Peronista Jesuit daily Los Principios "insanitary," and peremptorily padlocked it. This week Los Principios and Clarin had been allowed to resume publication, but a congressional committee closed the Communist daily La Hora, charging it with "anti-Argentine activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Dignidad Again | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...their first panicky reaction, Chileans tore into the U.S. tariff talk. Santiago's La Hora protested that it "counters principles [of freer world trade] backed by the U.S. in Bretton Woods, Havana, and Bogotá." Government leaders understood that it was only one part of their problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Copper Slide | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

High above the ancient shrine of three faiths, a Zionist banner proclaimed: "Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem." In the flag-decked streets below. Jewish youths danced the Hora. It was a day of triumph in the city which, for centuries of their exile, has been the symbol of the Jews' lost homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Road to Jerusalem | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...tell his wife Zahava. Their firstborn, Arie, was cutting his first teeth; he would be a Jew of Israel, the first of Abraham's family in centuries not to have another nationality. Abraham and Zahava and others in the camp built a bonfire; around it they danced the Hora to celebrate the end of their bitter, lifelong journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Journey Home | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...local government, though he knows it will mean instant dismissal from the mission. He remembers Hidalgo's words: "In bullfighting, William, they have a marvelous phrase for describing the climax of the ceremony-that ultimate moment of reality when the sword strikes the bull. 'La hora de verdad-the hour of truth.' A man must not waste away into nothing, William; a man must find his hour of truth." Having faced his hour, Harmon now feels that he can return to his family and find his place at its head again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grandeur Regained | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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