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Last week formal glories crowned her behind-scenes power. Opportunist George Tatarescu, who could turn his coat faster than Houdini, had outlived his usefulness to the Communists as Foreign Minister. The Communists kicked him out. On the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, on the eve of St. Michael's Day (his own "name" day), King Michael named Ana Pauker, who was not even one of his subjects, to be his Foreign Minister...
Last week, after a razzle-dazzle five months in office, Adhemar had two triumphs to his credit. He had rammed a new state constitution through the provincial legislature. And the Catholic Church had dropped its hostility toward him, which had arisen from his opportunist pre-election alliance with the Communists last January. His daughter would be married this week in the Church of the Convent of Mount Carmel by São Paulo's Archbishop, Carlo Carmelo, Cardinal de Vasconcellos Motta...
Subtitled "A Fictitious Reminiscence," the book obviously is not all fiction. Europeans will easily recognize Dario as the high-ranking Fascist journalist, Curzio Malaparte, and so will U.S. readers of Malaparte's curious autobiography Kaputt (TIME, Nov. 11). As the profile of a likable opportunist, the novel is convincing, but as a study in the dialectics of Fascism it probes no deeper than the good manners...
...years, John L. Lewis had played one role-the massive, threatening, bully-boy champion of his miners. Last fall he was challenged, fined, and-the U.S. thought-stripped of his power to strike. But the great opportunist, the master of vendetta, was only temporarily thwarted, not subdued...
...Coleman's regulars refused to be drawn afield. They belabored Bob LaFollette as a turncoat, renegade and opportunist. Glowing happily with exertion, they voted to back ex-Marine Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, 35, for the Senate seat. For good measure, they also turned thumbs down on brindled Governor Walter S. Goodland, 83, whose crotchety independence has irked many an old-line party man. For his place, they endorsed gladhanding, grey-haired Delbert J. Kenny, a former state Legion commander...