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...More Chance. Next afternoon the cabinet met again in emergency session. After an hour, it was joined by Supreme Court justices, and a rumor flashed around Buenos Aires that the judges had been called in to discuss legal problems of succession if the President should resign. Another report had the army demanding that the whole cabinet quit. In the end, the cabinet decided only to postpone action until Perón could appeal to the people once more. He was to get a chance this week; Vuletich ordered a four-hour token general strike during which labor was to hold...
...public figure. But over the years, he prospered wondrously. Rigged deals on the stock exchange, a cut on imported cars and machinery, black-market operations in meat enabled him to buy country estates complete with private airfields. A lavish party he gave recently at an exclusive Buenos Aires hotel rumor said, was to celebrate the acquisition of his first billion pesos ($75 million...
Through Nairobi's crowded Indian bazaars and squalid Negro quarter sped an ugly rumor: all Negro nursemaids had been ordered by the Mau Mau to murder white babies in their charge. The whites, hearing the rumor, took no chances. By train, by road and plane, hundreds of white children were sent to friends in Mombasa, 300 miles away on the Kenya coast. It was the tensest week since the Mau Mau emergency began. Nairobi's 16,000 whites were frankly awaiting a big Mau Mau attack. Probable Mau Mau Dday: April 8, when the court verdict on London...
This year the rumor went around that the authorities and more sophisticated islanders were embarrassed by the primitive revelry of the Ra Ra bands, and would attempt to ban them from the capital. But in Port-au-Prince, police said they had no orders to stop the merry processions, and even priests admitted that they saw no harm in the Judas hunt. "We take a neutral view, neither encouraging nor discouraging it," explained one. "It is part of the people's need for release...
There's a rumor going around that in Niagara the Falls are more impressive than Marilyn Monroe. As far as drama goes, this may be true. In any other department, Miss Monroe easily out-strips her competition. Unfortunately, Niagara tries to connect various shots of Miss Monroe's calculated walk with a draggy story about a woman plotting to murder her husband. The film, then, can only be fantasy, for Miss Monroe is obviously incapable of plotting anything...