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...Argentina's press was cringing before the Farrell regime. The great La Prensa was in a meek mood after its five-day suspension (TIME, May 8). La Nation, the No. 2 paper, last week averted a threatened eight-day suspension by apologizing for a mildly critical article and firing its author...
...usual two liveried flunkeys, stood in the high-arched doorway. Head high, shoulders back, Doňa Zelmira Paz de Anchorena turned, walked stiffly back to her limousine. She had come to see with her own eyes what she and many another Argentine had believed impossible: La Prensa, one of the world's great newspapers, had been forced to close for the first time in its 74 years...
Five days later La Prensa's Director Alberto Gainza Paz, handsome nephew of Don Ezequiel and Doňa Zelmira, met the Government's price for lifting the suspension: it printed the Farrell regime's defense of its economies (one item: rats had been exterminated, thus saving the cost of feeding them to prevent their nibbling at hospital records...
...upping box office and blood pressure in night clubs and ballrooms from London to San Francisco. Last week at a huge twelve-hour ball, they walked off with the most coveted prize in U.S. Latin American entertainment: the popularity poll conducted by Manhattan's Spanish-language daily La Prensa...
...Prensa responded by rushing correspondents to Montevideo where they cabled back foreign news direct...