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With a cheerful clanking of governmental wrenches, Revolutionary President Pedro Aramburu last week unbolted some more of the undemocratic machinery put together over a decade by ex-Dictator Juan Perón. One dramatic decree returned the famed newspaper La Prensa to its original owners. Another dissolved the strongman's Peronista Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Reform Decrees | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Wrote Ulises Carbó, columnist for Prensa Libra: "The picture Guys and Dolls pictures Havana as a mecca for vice. It even goes to the extreme of presenting an honest missionary (Jean Simmons) who, influenced by what she sees here, gets drunk and passes out on a strange potion from a coconut shell in the midst of an atmosphere of scandal and prostitution." Luis Conte Aguero, Diario Nacional columnist, harking back to an earlier assault on Havana's morals, put it differently: "There is a lot of truth in the story, but there are also a lot of false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Righteous Wrath | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...Return of La Prensa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Press, Dec. 12, 1955 | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...caution and conciliation. Instead of using his state-of-siege power to "intervene," i.e., take over, the powerful General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), he announced his confidence that labor could purge its own ranks without government compulsion. The new President also stepped adroitly around the vexed question of La Prensa, the great newspaper that Perón confiscated and turned over to the C.G.T. with an elaborate show of legality. Lonardi explained that he would not hand the paper back to its original owners by arbitrary decree-which left the way open for the de-Peronized courts to settle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Clean Sweep | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...Drew Pearson thumped the bongo drums for President Fulgencio Batista too fervently. In return, Havana's leading newspapers and magazines last week were busy thumping Pearson. "If Truman called Drew Pearson a liar," declared Mario Kuchilán in Prensa Libre, "he was being generous." Columnist José Pardo Llada, who once hailed Pearson as an "ideal commentator," wrote in Diario National: "Our illustrious friend Drew Pearson has defrauded us." So fulsome was Pearson's praise for the Batista regime that even a Batista booster, Diario National's Luis Manuel Martinez, objected. He called Pearson a "gringo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pearson in Bongoland | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

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