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...Orleans meeting of the Inter-American Press Association last week, Barranquilla Editor Julian Devis Echandia, defending Rojas' censorship on the ground that Colombia is "in a state of war," said that the six-year death toll in his country's civil war has now reached...
...Scorned. In Taipei, Formosa, after a pretty neighbor turned down his marriage proposal, Tai Chih-yun, 39, got a six-year jail sentence for biting off the tip of her nose...
Last week, halfway through his six-year term of office, President Ruiz Cortines reported to the Mexican Congress-and by radio to the nation-on his progress in solving the great problem of Mexico. His voice was flat, his prose dry. But there was a hint of justified pride in his tone as he ticked off some of the accomplishments of his administration...
...stepped out after two terms as South Dakota governor last January. Next month there will be another new face on the FTC: Democrat William C. Kern, 52-year-old Indianapolis lawyer and son of the late Senator John W. Kern, Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1908). Kern, now assistant director of FTC's Bureau of Litigation, will succeed 69-year-old Commissioner James Mead, former New York Senator, whose six-year term is expiring...
Over the Pans. To judge by their manifestoes, the antagonists had few real deep-down issues to differ over. Burned badly by their six-year watch over the hot pans of nationalization, the Laborites are no longer such strident advocates of Marxist Socialism. The once deep-blue Tories, turned pastel by the demands of a new, more progressive generation of Conservatives, have dismantled only a part of the Welfare State (public ownership of the steel and road transport). They have committed themselves to many of the economic and social concepts it was built upon. In foreign policy the two parties...