Word: tribuna
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Editor Carlos Lacerda, boss of Rio's sprightly afternoon Tribuna da Imprensa, dearly loves a newsbeat. This week he had a good one. His Tribuna reported that Argentina's President Perón had jailed the man he hailed last March as the discoverer of a new "Argentine" way of liberating atomic energy (TIME, April...
...Tribuna's report, datelined Buenos Aires, said that Dr. Ronald Richter, the former Austrian scientist, was arrested after technical experts of the Argentine army had discovered that Richter "was not sufficiently advanced as a physicist" to achieve the atomic release Perón had claimed. Three experts informed Perón that Richter, in their opinion, was nothing more than a "colossal bluff...
...Furious, Perón ordered Dr. Richter arrested," reported Tribuna. "But he has not publicly announced the action, nor is it likely that he will. News of the arrest is being guarded in deepest secrecy by the few persons close to Perón . . . This time Señor Perón is not in the same hurry to call in news correspondents as he was when he announced the sensational discovery of an Argentine thermal nuclear process for the liberation of atomic energy...
Arriving in Rio de Janeiro for this week's regional conference of U.S. diplomats in South America, State Department Counselor George Kennan and Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller received greetings in the Stalinist manner from the Communist newspaper Tribuna Popular. With a nice feeling for rank and function, Tribuna called Kennan "an international bandit," Miller "a male Mata Hari...