Word: lawyers
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Unpopular Task. Frondizi won office with Peronista votes, and his first political instinct was to repay the favor with such spendthrift sops as massive wage rises. But Frondizi, son of an Italian immigrant roadbuilder, is a responsible lawyer and political economist, and he soon made a different choice. He swapped Peronista support for army backing and began the dangerous, unpopular job of making Argentina live within its means. First, he coolly downgraded the ineffectual, sacred-cow national oil monopoly, by inviting foreign oilmen to develop Argentina's petroleum resources. The first new well came in last week, beginning...
...Philadelphia the University of Pennsylvania's President Gaylord P. Harnwell pondered the pixyish offer from a local lawyer and his clients to put up $500,000 for an endowed professorship of taxation, finally announced that his school had no intention of honoring the name of the late Mobster Al Capone with this particular chair...
Died. Octavus Roy Cohen, 67, novelist, screenwriter, playwright and magazine writer, best known for his pre-World War II Saturday Evening Post short stories about happy-go-lucky, heavy-dialect Southern Negroes such as Florian Slappey, Lawyer Evans Chew, Marshmallow Jeepers and Epic Peters; following a stroke, in Los Angeles. Cohen also wrote for the early Amos 'n' Andy radio series...
Debré, the able lawyer chiefly responsible for writing the constitution of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic, is known in Gaullist circles as "the most faithful of the faithful." A practising Roman Catholic of partly Jewish ancestry, Debre has been a Gaullist since he escaped from a World War II Nazi prison camp to join the French Resistance. Mildness is not his style. Under the Fourth Republic, his ferocious attacks on the old parliamentary system both in France's Senate and in his weekly Messenger of Anger won him the nickname...
Fidel Castro Ruz, 32, the rebel chief, is a nonpracticing lawyer who began fighting Batista in 1953 by leading a frontal attack on Moncada barracks in Santiago. He named his 26th of July movement for the day the attack failed, went into Mexican exile, returned to invade Oriente province with 81 men aboard the yacht Gramma on Dec. 2, 1956. Castro likes to sit about a campfire and talk military science, citing Rommel and Napoleon, and discussing romantic proposals for Cuba, e.g., a school-city for 20,000 children. In 1953 he called for nationalization of U.S.-owned public utilities...