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...revolution," or from what he said only last May: "The revolution isn't over yet." Yet some Argentines interpreted Perón's words as an implicit commitment to renounce his dictatorial powers, end the four-year-old "state of internal war" and restore Argentina's long-lost freedom of speech, press and assembly. Whether Perón really intends to ease up remains to be seen. But the speech fitted tidily into the policy he has followed steadily since the June 16 bombing revolt: to seem the statesman and play the peacemaker while stalling for time...
...Neighborhood. In Salt Lake City, after years of running newspaper advertisements. Thomas J. and Frank Wiley finally persuaded a Denver foundling home to tell them the adopted name of their long-lost brother, looked in their local directory, found that brother Hugh Bernecker, a substitute schoolteacher, had lived within 40 miles of them for 15 years and had once taught at a school attended by Frank's children...
Weeks ago the union's Vice President A. T. Jones urged strikers to tie up longdistance lines with person-to-person calls for fictitious "long-lost uncles." such as "J. P. Zilch." Another union leader chortled: "We can keep the ones who are working so busy it won't be easy for them to make money for Bell Telephone." Then the union mimeographed a twelve-page booklet, labeled "Operation Zilch," listing 770 phone numbers to call. The plan; to refer calls "in chain fashion, from one number to another...
...need of names to brighten its roster, Mexico's short-handed (membership: barely 5,000) Communist Party offered a bittersweet welcome to a long-lost comrade, Painter Diego Rivera, 67. In 1929, Comrade Rivera was excommunicated because of his growing list of deviations. He had fallen into the habit of firing off peppery pronunciamentos without first clearing them with the proper Red monitors. Confessed loose-lipped Rivera: "I got kicked out for shooting off my mouth." He later even gave haven in his home for two years to Leon Trotsky. Back in the fold again last week, Rivera...
Phlox & Talks. The Russians, in no mood to niggle when they had such a good thing, welcomed the travelers like long-lost brothers. They sent a special VIP plane to Helsinki to pick them up, put them up lavishly in the Sovietskaya Hotel in suites complete with pianos and radios. "Truly a place for important people," glowed Unionist Harry Franklin. Georgy Malenkov himself invited them out to a handsome country dacha, and after picking a bunch of phlox and gladioli for Dr. Summerskill, told her gallantly: "What has been wrong too often in the world of education is that...