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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industrial belt around Buenos Aires was closed down tight. But instead of demonstrating in the streets or sabotaging still-operating plants, the workers good-naturedly sipped maté in the spring sunshine or played sand-lot soccer. As the strike dragged on, soldiers took over buses, and society women, made change in subway booths. Tacks thrown into streets halted 90 buses and a fire engine on its way to answer a fire alarm; a Molotov cocktail was tossed against a bus. But at strike's end most workers went quietly back to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Firm Hand | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...ninth biggest U.S. newspaper, the Sun-Times (circ. 588,181) boasts that it has overtaken John S. Knight's Chicago News (614,098) in ad volume, and is steadily edging up to the Chicago Tribune (943,741). "Now," vowed a Sun-Times executive, "we will go to the mat with the Trib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: To the Mat! | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

John McNulty did not create his own most famous character-Mat, the proprietor of a gin mill known as "Mat's." He simply wrote down what the man said. What resulted was that great Irish art form known as conversation, which, at its best, is always above and beyond the call of truth. In his later stories, McNulty often slipped into the habit of giving Mat his real name-Timothy Athena Costello, proprietor of Costello's Restaurant, Third Avenue at 44th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Street Scene | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

East German Communists were all set to put out the welcome mat for the touring Kremlin leaders last week, but no one knew what to say on it. The satirical weekly Eulenspiegel (circ. 400,000) went to press too far in advance with a cartoon of B. and K. arriving in tubby tandem. East Berlin diplomats received handsome engraved invitations to a reception honoring B. and K. For 24 hours after Moscow's last-minute announcement that Premier Bulganin would not be a member of the party, one long red banner strung across an East Berlin building said simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: K. Minus B. | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...rich Iran, long regarding foreign interest in its black wealth with suspicion, last week put out the welcome mat and declared open house for all comers. After two days of debate, the Majlis (the lower house of Parliament) passed a new law that opens up vast new areas of Iran for oil exploration and development under surprisingly favorable terms for foreign investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Welcome Mat in Iran | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

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