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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conservatives, long weary of seeing a Marxist preside over the Chamber of Deputies, had worked up the strength to oust Jose Antonio Arze, the green-eyed ex-Williams College professor who is also boss of the Left Revolutionary Party (P.I.R.). That very evening, when the President entertained the Cabinet and others at dinner, the two P.I.R. ministers chilled the turkey by handing in their resignations. Next day Foreign Minister Luis Fernando Guachalla, whom Hertzog nosed out of the presidency last January, by only 279 votes, also called it quits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Same Scissors | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...reputation as an operatic spare tire. She had little cause to worry. Since she won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made her surprise debut three years ago, she has sung in many a Met production-Toscx, A'ida, Cavalleria Rusticana, Madame Butterfly, etc. On the strength of such performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Distress Cases | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...Morbid Fantasy." The Greek dispute was the most difficult (and potentially the most dangerous) problem for Gromyko and U.N. It was also quite a problem for the Greeks. Last week came new reports about the Communist International Brigade (which Gromyko dismissed as a mere "morbid fantasy"). Estimates of its strength ran from 5,000 to 50,000 men. A recruiting drive is going on in Western Europe as well as the Balkans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Negative Neanderthaler | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Summer baseball will test its strength for the first time on outside opposition tomorrow when a picked College team meets the Middlesex nine of Watertown at 3.30 o'clock at Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Informal Nine To Meet Club Of Watertown | 8/12/1947 | See Source »

...thing that makes it worth having. In The Eternal Moment, a woman novelist captures the primitive beauty of an Italian village; but her book unwittingly turns the village into a tourist center, and destroys it. Says Christ, in one of the stories: "There is no abiding home for strength and beauty among men. The flower fades, the seas dry up in the sun, the sun and all the stars fade as a flower. But the desire for such things, that is eternal, that can abide, and he who desires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fables In Fantasy | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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