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Political Career. In 1930, Neighbor Vargas set out to march to Rio and seize control of Brazil. Ousted in 1945, he got to know and like his neighbor's son. Together they sat on Vargas' stoop, sipped the gaucho herb tea called mate through silver straws, talked politics. In 1950, when Vargas swept back to power (this time in a free election), Goulart went along to Rio with him. Goulart watched over the labor movement for Vargas, be came his Labor Minister. In the ministry he embarked on a short but highly successful campaign to buy popular support...
...view is that his good ideas and draughtsmanship are limited by his oldfashioned, mushy medium and his refusal to stoop to symbolism...
...anything happened?" asked worried, aproned Housewife Judith Coplon Socolov, as she was accosted on her Brooklyn stoop by two newsmen. The answer was no, and the absence of news made a front-page story in the newly enterprising New York Herald Tribune. Twelve years before, Judith Coplon, then a 27-year-old Justice Department employee, was arrested for trying to pass classified information to a Soviet agent, was convicted on two counts of espionage. But her sentences, which totaled 25 years, were variously set aside and postponed. After the Supreme Court refused to review the legal confusion, the Justice Department...
...legendary reputation. At the other, soft-boiled end of the world was the late Betty (The Egg and 1 Mac-Donald, an authentic primitive. Jean Kerr will probably never be quite up to Parker (for one thing, she is not cruel nor, perhaps, as deep), and she will never stoop to suffer from the "poultricidal tendencies" of MacDonald. She is nearer, but not completely in, the no man's land?and Everywoman's country?of such writers as Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Cornelia Otis Skinner (Nuts in May), Sally Benson (Junior Miss) and Phyllis Mc-Ginley, a Larchmont neighbor...
...gendarmerie to keep Stanleyville in a perpetual state of terror. Fortnight ago he herded all 600 of Stanleyville's whites into an open field where they stood for hours in the broiling sun awaiting an "identity check." Passengers arriving by air were searched on arrival, then forced to stoop down and pick up their wallets and other belongings that Salumu's men had thrown to the ground. Daphne Parks, a consular official of the British embassy, was slapped twice by gendarmes, who then unzipped her dress. Priests and congregations more than once were ordered out of church...