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Argentines knew, and President Ramirez knew, that these were the words of a President who had become a figurehead. El Mercurio put the spotlight on Argentina's real leadership-the Army clique behind Ramirez. It said: "If the tide flows on as now and if there are not international complications, Colonel Perón can be, in a short time, the upmost Caudillo of the Argentine Republic...
This time Curley wriggled under the hottest spotlight he has yet faced- indictment by a Federal grand jury. The charge: Curley and five other men (including Donald Wakefield Smith, a former member of NLRB) used the mails to mulct suckers through a war-contracts racket called Engineers Group, Inc. The company claimed an ability to wangle equally fat contracts for new clients. Fees as high as $9,000 were accepted. Actually, the Government charges: Engineers Group has no advisory board, no contracts, no legal ability to get contracts...
...says Francis Baer is "a comer [who will] cut a big figure in this business." But last week he turned his spotlight upon another of his executives: big, dark, 54-year-old Carl F. Wente, who stepped into a newly created job as senior vice president of Bank of America...
...spotlight for most of the afternoon were Captain and Mrs. McIntosh, Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. Hesser and various other members of the School Faculty and their wives. The spotlight shifted to the student officers when the professional danceuse picked "Chick" Soloway, of the Junior Class, to demonstrate the samba...
...reprehensible race riots of the past couple of weeks (TIME, June 28) may serve to good purpose in throwing a spotlight . . . upon the menacing growth of racial consciousness in America. Undoubtedly many have listened in recent months to a strangely swelling chorus of ominous predictions having to do with prospective internal conflict after the world war is settled. One hears of "real trouble coming up"; of "somebody" (unidentified) who is "going after" this or that "minority group...