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...nobody's surprise, greying Roberto Cochrane Simonsen joined his fellow Senators last week in voting to oust Communists from public office.* An influential member of anti-Communist President Dutra's party, he barely won his seat last January over Communist Candido Portinari, Brazil's greatest painter. His own anti-Red views are well known. Besides, Industrialist-Economist Simonsen is a top-rank spokesman for São Paulo's bustling industry, and Communists are bad for business...
Conservatives, long weary of seeing a Marxist preside over the Chamber of Deputies, had worked up the strength to oust Jose Antonio Arze, the green-eyed ex-Williams College professor who is also boss of the Left Revolutionary Party (P.I.R.). That very evening, when the President entertained the Cabinet and others at dinner, the two P.I.R. ministers chilled the turkey by handing in their resignations. Next day Foreign Minister Luis Fernando Guachalla, whom Hertzog nosed out of the presidency last January, by only 279 votes, also called it quits...
Charles S. Keevil, Jr., who played number five on the Amherst squad and won the N. E. title last spring, came back from the short end of a set-point, 5 to 3 first set to oust Ashley, 7 to 5 and 6 to 1. Last summer, Ashley was part of the victorious doubles team in the University tournament...
...years ago an irate parent got elected to the Los Angeles school board and soon persuaded the board to oust Miss Seeds from her city-owned buildings. But other parents rallied to Miss Seeds's support. When left-wingers gave Miss Seeds some unsought backing, she found herself before California's Legislative Committee on un-American Activities. Chairman Jack Tenney asked her to explain her classroom approach to Russia. Miss Seeds said that her pupils studied Russian costumes, homes and farming. "You mean collective farming?" asked Chairman Tenney. Replied Miss Seeds: "That's all they have...
...years as dictator, Trujillo has broken the spirit of the 2,000,000 Dominicans (200.000 whites, 1,200,000 mulattoes, the rest Negroes). Few dare even to mention his name in public, though in whispers they call him "Beautiful Murder." Seven months ago, 60 rebel soldiers plotted to oust him. For two weeks the Government did nothing. Then the plotters were sent to outposts at Pedernales (on the Haitian border), and at the town of Loma de Cabrera. When they had taken up their new posts, the conspirators were stabbed to death, a11 at the same time, on the same...