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...police hustled 52 of the pickets, including the priests, to the nearest precinct. While the contest judges slowly settled on their choice, the cops made a lengthy check on the pickets to determine whether their identity cards were in order. It took them until 5 a.m., when by happy coincidence, the Argentina had just locked up tight, to decide that everybody's cards were in order. With a sigh of relief, the cops sent the priests and their followers home, secure in the knowledge that their country had a new Miss Greece: 19-year-old Fedora Xyrou...
...Boss George Parr. Originally, Jim Wells turned in a count of 1,786 for Johnson, 769 for Coke Stevenson. Then, six days later, the county reported a corrected count: Johnson 1,988, Stevenson 770. The correction put Johnson over. Stevenson charged fraud, but the polling list and ballots from Precinct 13 (where Stevenson said the fraud occurred) could not be found. They have not been found yet. Johnson won all the legal battles, and a new nickname: "Landslide Lyndon...
...mustachioed ex-dean of the University of Buenos Aires' law school, grand old man of Argentine socialism, veteran of 70 duels. Also in jail: ex-Senator Nicolas Repetto, 81. "Unheard of!" barked Palacios to a fellow inmate as he tramped across the patio of Buenos Aires' 23rd precinct station during the prisoners' exercise period. "Under arrest without charges! There is no more respect for old age and venerability...
...arrested men turned out to be wealthy conservatives in opposition to Peron's regime. They were hauled off to the 17th precinct station, where the electric needle is one of the approved methods for extracting information. Soon they implicated other Buenos Aires socialites. who apparently thought amateurish bomb-throwing would somehow shake Peron (actually it seems to have strengthened his regime). The cops arrested about 225 other solid Argentine citizens-"oligarchs," the press called them-seizing many plain and fancy weapons (military rifles, big-game guns, nitroglycerin). The police reported that the "oligarchs" had ordered 1,000 identically...
Herbert Brownell, once an aspirant to a career in journalism, knows how to organize good political reporting. Before the precinct caucuses in Texas last May, his information convinced him that the Eisenhower forces would have a majority, but the Taft forces would probably bolt and hold rump sessions. Before the Texas cloud was even sighted on the national political scene, Brownell had decided that Texas was the crucial G.O.P. state, and had flown there to map his strategy. He called the signals on the Texas battle, and it proved to be the beginning of the Eisenhower breakthrough...