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...fight for Uruguayan wool in Boston and Uruguayan beef in Chicago," announced President Luis Batlle Berres in Montevideo last week. "I'm going to converse, discuss and fight in a friendly way to defend Uruguayan interests." Thereupon, Batlle Berres and his wife took off for a twelve-day state visit to the U.S., at the special invitation of President Eisenhower. The itinerary was loaded with wreath-layings, state dinners, speeches and sightseeing. But President Batlle (pronounced Bat-zhay) Berres took his finance minister with him, and some serious talk on economic matters-perhaps even U.S. loans-was clearly expectable...
...Women's Defense of the Constitution League took up their stations of mute protest outside the old brownstone Raad-saal where Premier Strydom staged his show. Inside, opposition United Party Leader J.G.N. Strauss denounced the proceedings as "immoral and unconstitutional," then walked out with all his followers. Thereupon the Nationalists, inflated their countrywide majority to 77 of the Senate's 89 members...
Some Western observers thereupon cried havoc. The cold war was on again; the leopard had not changed his spots; the fat was in the fire, and, said one liberal U.S. commentator, the defense budget should be immediately increased as a result of the failure of the second Geneva conference. The observers most downcast by the failures of Geneva II were those who, forgetting the essential limitation Eisenhower had placed upon it, had exaggerated Geneva...
Lonardi brought back more than freedom; he brought back justice. In 1946 and 1947, Perón's Congress impeached the entire five-man Supreme Court on the novel ground that its earlier decisions constituted "misdemeanors." The judges were thereupon ousted and replaced by Peronista lackeys. The new President threw out the Peronistas and replaced them with law professors and provincial judges known for their brains and probity. And he started the General Confederation of Labor on the way to pick new leaders for itself...
...four small daughters by washing windows for an undertaker and borrowing from brother Alain. He hits on a scheme to enrich himself when the agate-eyed undertaker offers him 60,000 francs to sign a "dying wish," asking Alain to provide him with a de luxe funeral. The undertaker thereupon makes Désiré sick through autosuggestion, and rapidly pushes him to the brink of the de luxe funeral, only to drop dead himself. Désiré recovers instantly and signs himself (and Alain) up for fancy burials with half the morticians of Paris, for the usual advance...