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...inevitable clash broke out at midweek with a demand from the liberal faction that Lonardi oust the "clerical Fascists" in his Cabinet. Giving in, he fired Bengoa and Goyeneche. But the liberals' pleasure quickly faded when Lonardi wrote out a manifesto to the nation. Said he: "The government prefers that some guilty persons escape rather than permit some innocent persons to suffer" -a plain slap at Vice President Rojas' plan for mass trials. Further inflaming the crackdown group, Lonardi fired Minister Busso...
...Christchurch, N.Z., Landlord J. Robinson loudly complained to the local Land Valuation Court that the young couple who had rented a beach cottage from him for their 1938 honeymoon still occupied the place, despite the birth of their four children and the fruitless efforts he had made to oust them...
BUSINESSMEN VOLUNTEERS, who serve in Washington without pay, will continue to hold down key jobs in the U.S. Government, but with restrictions on their power. The Senate voted down a proposal to oust private businessmen who serve without compensation (WOCs) while still drawing corporate salaries. But both the Senate and a House committee have agreed on the principle that no WOC serving as a division chief may decide matters of policy, must turn them over to a full-time official...
...with other investors to raid and reorganize sick companies. In 1952 Pennroad with Harris Upham and others secretly started buying stock in South America Gold & Platinum Co., which had a cash kitty of $4,000,000 (about 50% of its net worth), two years later had enough stock to oust the management. Last year Pennroad used South American's kitty to buy another gold company with $6,000,000 more in the till, then merged the two, diversified into cement and pipelines. As a result, South American's profits on 1955's first six months' gross...
Pierre Mendès-France, planning his comeback, asked for an extraordinary party congress to decide the party's pos ture before the 1956 general elections. Implicit purpose: to oust Léon Martinaud-Déplat as the party's administrative boss. Martinaud-Déplat yielded to the demand but spitefully made the bleakest arrangements possible: he scheduled a daytime congress last week in Paris' dreary, colonnaded Salle Wagram, knowing that a wrestling match was due to begin at 6:30. "If Mendès wants to fight," said Martinaud-Déplat sourly...