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Arnold Sigurd Kirkeby (rhymes with irk-a-bee), 44, breakfasted early at Manhattan's tony Hampshire House, which he owns. After breakfast he slowly smoked his way through two fat, black Rey Del Mundo cigars. Then he was ready for battle...
...final wartime assignment was to head up OWI in Italy and the Balkans. (While in Rome he published OWI magazines totaling 525,000 copies a month - among them the Italian "Nuovo Mundo," the Croatian "DANAS," the Serbian "AAHAC...
...Constitution of 1886, which acknowledges the right to insurrection. Colonel Aguirre suspended the Constitution, proceeded to "maintain order." Hundreds were jailed. With a friendly word toward neighboring Dictator Tiburcio Carias of Honduras, Colonel Aguirre raided the headquarters of the Honduran revolutionaries in San Salvador's Nuevo Mundo Hotel. The arresting officers were so rough with the Honduran leaders they caught that the other exiles hastily fled back to Honduras. Grateful Honduras recognized Salvador's new Government...
...attacked the press. The Department of Press & Propaganda closed five pro-U.S. national magazines with democratic inclinations: Diretrizes, a political journal; Illustracão Brasileira, a liberal monthly; Renovacão, a student publication; Nossa Senhora Menina, whose editor was Don Carlos Duarte, liberal Catholic Bishop of Maura; Mundo Medico, a professional journal that had plumped for social welfare...
...Adney-built scale models in the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va. Adney also has another interest. He believes vocal sounds in every tongue express common mental reactions. On this theory he explains similarities between European and North American Indian speech. Example: in the language of the Algonquian Indian, mundo means God or, literally, "protecting hand"; in Anglo-Saxon, mund meant hand. Explains Adney: "[By this method] I have cracked words and phrases the original meaning of which had been believed lost beyond recovery...