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...enough energy to come to this conclusion by himself?" Act of Despotism. Fernandes got away with the attack. But the country's new War Minister, General Jair Dantas Ribeiro, got sore when Imprensa carried his two memos; he got even madder when he read Fernandes' followup, Page One commentary: "Those two confidential dispatches had no secret. They just disclosed the War Minister's immense capacity for being contradictory and vain." That did it. The army claimed Fernandes had exposed a secret code as well as violated Brazil's military penal law, and the country was split...
...adapted from the drama that in 1960 was selected as Broadway's best, Playwright Hellman returns to the Southern scene of her greatest triumph (The Little Foxes) and to the theme that has attached her deepest energies: the fateful antinomy of power and love. Her leading lady (Geraldine Page) is a gabby genteel old maid, one of those wispy little women who flutter through the literature of the South like a flock of steel butterflies. She lives in a rotting ancestral manse, she graciously permits her spinster sister (Wendy Hiller) to wait on her hand and foot, she justifies...
Your statement that Baron Munchhausen was a fiction [July 19] is untrue. Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Baron von Munchhausen was born on May 11, 1720. He was a page at the court of Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig, later served as lieutenant in Riga and advanced to captain in the regiment of Peter III of Russia in 1750. He was a great soldier, hunter and teller of tales. He died on Feb. 22, 1797. He is buried in Boden-werder, which to this day calls itself the "Munchhausen Stadt...
...group found few outright abuses of the stock market's rules, but its recommendations struck deeply at five major areas (see box on next page) that make up the very heart of the market, promised the most sweeping overhaul of Wall Street since the Pecora investigation set up the SEC 30 years ago. The SEC recommended that trading in stock issues that are "unlisted" on any exchange be automated and perhaps made cheaper for the investor, and that the cost of trading in "odd lots" of fewer than 100 shares be lowered. It asked for closer regulation...
...editorial on page three of today's Summer News, "A Basic Principle," discusses the Summer School administration's position on the Socialist Club controversy as it was outlined by Thomas E. Crooks, director of the School, in a telephone interview Wednesday afternoon...