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JOURNALISM. Since the murder of La Prensa (TIME, March 12, et seq.), Buenos Aires' last surviving independent daily is La Natión-proud, conservative, accurate. Argentines who hunger for honest news instead of government pap now queue up at the paper's office at 6 a.m. to buy the few extra copies available (Perón controls the newsprint and holds the circulation down to 180,000 daily). Dealers sell copies for 25 times the normal price. When La Natión reported last week's rail strike factually instead of parroting the government line...
...more than a decade, Britons have been patiently queuing up for virtually all of life's luxuries and necessities. Last week, Britain's nationalized railways announced a plan to relieve the lot of passengers forced to stand in line for trains. On the principle that a queue by any other name is easier to bear, British station signs reading, "Queue here" will be changed to "Assemble here...
...lovers jumped at the challenge. By 3 p.m. one day last week-four hours before the doors opened-they began to queue up outside the museum with camp stools, box lunches and Thermos jugs of Martinis. At 7 p.m. the Whitney opened its doors and the 1,000-odd lined up outside began to pour...
Amazon. A grumbling line formed outside the men's room as passengers hurried to wash and shave. Suddenly, a huge figure in white silk pajamas brushed past the queue, commandeered one of the wash-stands and vigorously commenced a predawn toilet. Don Mauricio Hochschild, Bolivia's fabulously wealthy tin magnate, was in a hurry to get to New York...
Lampoon--Bow, Street; 1, Bis; 2, Wit; 3, Joe Kerr; 4, Queue; 5, Dunce; 6, Fiend; 7, Clink Kerr; Stroke, Quigley; Cox, C. Oliver Iselin '49. Average height: 4 ft. 9 in. (with cox, 4 ft. 9 in). Average weight: 212 (with...