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...through the social circles of the capital. Summoning all his demagogue's dialectic and caucus cunning, Senator Ratcliffe sets out to filibuster Mrs. Lee out of her heart, her hand and her income. As the senatorial courtship wheezes forward, Adams steps out of the wings to take a peek at U.S. society of the late 19th century...
Last week, in near-freezing rain, some 700,000 Argentines made pilgrimage to her bier in Buenos Aires.* Most waited for more than 15 hours to get a 20-second peek at Eva's thin and wasted face-and often at Juan Perón, who kept long vigils at her glass-topped casket. Sixteen persons were killed, crushed and trampled by the throngs; 3,900 were in hospitals with injuries; thousands of others got first aid. In the 20-block, four-abreast queue were infants in arms and a 102-year-old woman who cried...
Next to Russia's Iron Curtain, Red China's bamboo fence is the most impenetrable political barrier in the modern world. Recently, Communist Dictator Mao Tse-tung offered to let 14 Indian observers peek behind the fence (India had allowed a Red Chinese "good will" mission to visit New Delhi last year). Prime Minister Nehru, who is fascinated by the New China, gladly sent the mission, but carefully staffed it with cool-headed observers whose impressions he could trust, as he no longer trusts his credulous ambassador, K. M. Panikkar, now recalled home. As chief delegate he chose...
...officials of the nation's anti-inflation program to define the word stabilize. Said Chief Stabilizer Roger Putnam: "To preserve the value of the dollar." Price Boss Ellis Arnall : "To keep in a stable position or relatively in equilibrium or balance." Wage Board Chairman Nathan Feinsinger, after a peek at the dictionary: "A substance added to an explosive to render-it less liable to spontaneous decomposition...
...Hong Kong, the keyhole which gives the West an occasional peek inside Communist China, British businessmen have long felt that the Chinese Reds were here to stay. They scoffed at Americans who argued otherwise. Last week Hong Kong's respected weekly Far Eastern Economic Review, organ of influential British Far Eastern traders, sharply reversed itself...