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...century Uruguay that he knew as a boy, William Henry (The Purple Land) Hudson called the presidential chair a "throne of human skulls." But in modern Uruguay, Latin America's most solicitous welfare state, the office of President no longer exists; its power has been diffused in a nine-man federal council on the Swiss model. Public-school children wear an egalitarian uniform of white smock and blue Windsor tie. The state pensions citizens off at 60. Even the rich get a break: Uruguay, an anomaly among welfare states, manages to get along without a personal income...
...brighter side, an awareness seems to be growing that Uruguay's economic troubles are mainly homemade. Citizens complain about the ineffectuality of the nine-man governing council, sign petitions for a return to the presidential system. Disappointment at the red-ink record of the government in business is widespread. Says Juan Antonio Acuna, head of Uruguay's No. 1 non-Communist labor federation: "We are terrified when the state considers nationalizing another industry...
...frozen joints and wasted muscles after the disease had done its gnarling and crippling work. Lately there have been major advances, largely through new and daring surgical techniques. Typical is the case of Angelina Ferrara, who was severely crippled by Still's disease at the age. of nine. Her knees were bent and could not be straightened; her elbows were straight and could not be bent; her hips were bent and frozen. Last year, aged 25, Angelina was taken to the arthritis clinic at Manhattan's superbly equipped Hospital for Special Surgery. There she scored near zero...
Last week Psychologist Goering. the nurse who had wielded the needle, and nine of Adin's neighbors, Mennonites all, were fined a total of $6,000 for assault in a Hagerstown, Md. court. "We have a democracy, and you should subscribe to it," scolded the judge. But the law of the Mennonite community was still the one Farmer Hege had to deal with, and there he still stood condemned. All Hege need do to return to the fold, said Bishop Horst, was to "confess his error." Said Adin: "I think I'll leave it lay right...
Since Henry Louis Mencken died at 75 nine months ago (TIME, Feb. 6), his prowess as editor, critic and scholar has inspired many a praiseful chorus. Last week Mencken's own voice floated out of the past to re-create his sparkle as a conversationalist and his flinty views on a range of targets-including his own craft. The Library of Congress issued two long-playing records ($7.50) of an interview made for its files by Mencken and the Baltimore Sun's Donald H. Kirkley Sr. Taped in June 1948, only five months before a stroke ended...