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Socratic Method. In Manhattan, a judge kept silencing Assistant District Attorney Burton Roberts' attempts to interrupt Defense Attorney Horacio Quinones, but recessed the court when Roberts finally broke in to say: "I'm sorry, Your Honor, but in the interest of public health and justice, I must bring to the court's attention the fact that Mr. Quinones has just drunk a glass of Epsom salts in which I was bathing my finger...
Socratic Method. In Manhattan, a judge kept silencing Assistant District Attorney Burton Roberts' attempts to interrupt Defense Attorney Horacio Quinones, but recessed the court when Burton finally broke in to say: "I'm sorry, Your Honor, but in the interest of public health and justice, I must bring to the court's attention the fact that Mr. Quinones has just drunk a glass of Epsom salts in which I was bathing my finger...
...government, curbs on bank credit and tax reform. The two preceding Finance Ministers also drew up disinflationary programs, but inflation kept right on. What makes Gudin's prospects sounder is that President Café Filho is backing him up. Getulio Vargas failed to back up his men, Horacio Lafer and Oswaldo Aranha. While Lafer was tightening credit, the Bank of Brazil was loosening it; while Aranha was trying to curb prices, Vargas decreed a 100% increase in minimum wages...
Brazil is half a billion dollars in the red-mainly because she cannot produce nearly enough to pay for what she needs from abroad, and lacks the investment capital to increase production. Vargas' Finance Minister Horacio Lafer has tried to balance the books by slashing imports in half-but that has not been enough. With all existing export industries except coffee too high priced to compete in the world market, the nationalists have balked at developing likely new exports with the aid of foreign capital. Items...
Beauty & the Beasts. In Buenos Aires, Horacio Gnecchi explained to the crowd that he had leaped into the lions' den at the zoo in order to retrieve some photographs of Evita Perón which he had accidentally dropped...