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Unaltered Thorn. Argentina's Government, said Rockefeller, had not kept the promises it made before admission to the San Francisco Conference. Axis-owned firms were still only loosely controlled. Fugitive Axis nationals and funds had not been hunted down. The Government ruled by naked force, with no elections in sight. Rockefeller's prescription for the Argentine people: kick out the militarists...
...coal (see Wartime Living) and help out in the transportation jam (TIME, July 30). Almost everybody in the capital thought the Army was too big - except the Army. Last week, the scrap was brought to a head by Colorado's angular, crinkly-haired Senator Ed Johnson, a constant thorn in the War Department's side...
...last Honors List the King eased off that thorn in the side of the Empire, David Lloyd George, by making him an earl. And what does he do with an oldline union man such as the head of the coal miners' union?* He knights him. . . . These boys'll have to be conservative all along the line now; if they write it'll have to be in the dignified columns of the Times; if they speak it'll have to be in well-modulated tones over the dinner hour of the "wireless...
Biggest Pan Am thorn is that, bit by bit, TACA may gather the operating rights to knit its South American system together. A new TACA affiliate is getting under way in Paraguay, and one is on paper in Argentina, awaiting more favorable diplomatic weather. Unless TACA loses its market-South & Central America's need for a poor man's airline-more are likely to follow...
...periods as a result of down field marches of 78 and 72 yards, respectively. Bob Cowen, ace fullback, spearheaded the attack as the Cantabs ran rampant through the Boston College line. Averaging eight yards per try from scrimmage and making several spectacular punt returns, the Waban lad was a thorn in the Eagles' side all afternoon...