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...their fancy offices down the street from Argentina's Government Palace, the editors of the great La Prensa sniffed red-hot news. In a single day last week three stocks in which Economic Czar Miguel Miranda was known to have large holdings had plunged 20 to 40 points on the Buenos Aires exchange. La Prensa's best reporters were sent out to find...
Next morning, La Prensa broke one of the biggest stories in months: Economic Czar Miguel Miranda was out of office, his National Economic Council was to be abolished, and his one-man dictatorial setup supplanted by a whole new financial team. That night decrees from Government Palace confirmed La Prensa's story in almost every detail...
...City, but Rita said it was only a coincidence (he is still married to wife No. 1; her divorce from husband No. 2, Orson Welles, has just become final). Rita's trip, she announced, was merely "to see the sights and rest." On its front page, the local Prensa Libre burbled: "She weighs 118 pounds, all curves and the most extraordinary sex appeal ever imagined. She and the Khan traveled all over Europe and Mexico like brothers." Fed up with excited reporters, the Aly snapped at one: "Look here, old boy. I like to answer your questions...
...sang: "In this year of nineteen hundred and forty-eight a comet appeared in the sky. Have a care, señores, have a care!" Each dawn last week the comet could be seen in the eastern sky, shooting out its long mane of white fire. The tabloid Prensa Gráfica blamed it for the five slight earthquake shocks that rattled the city during the week...
...successful revolt could save them politically. In recent months, their power and prestige had slipped badly. For the impending elections to the Constituent Assembly, all other political groups had combined against them. Moreover, they were almost certain to be convicted of direct connection with the murder of La Prensa's right-wing Publisher Francisco Graña, shot down in front of his office. The Grana murder had been a political cause...