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...with-credentials-only press conference held one morning in a hotel. The star attraction: Italy's full-blown Cinemactress Gina (Bread, Love and Dreams) Lollobrigida (TIME, Aug. 16), in the Argentine as an official guest of one of her fans, President Juan PerÓn. Hearing the restive tumult from those barred at the door, Gina melted the newsmen by asking: "Why do they love me so much?" After visiting the presidential mansion, Gina purred: "I realize now why people love PerÓn so much...
...lead the opposition when Australia's ruling Liberal Party tried-and failed-to outlaw the Communists in 1951. Evatt's defense of the Reds, high-minded as it was. provoked a rumble of discontent among his party's Catholic right wing. But the rumble grew into tumult when Evatt assailed the Petrov spy investigation (TIME, Sept. 27) as "a foul conspiracy" hatched by the conservative Liberal government. He carried on so melodramatically that the investigating Royal Commission finally barred him from participating in the hearings...
...British and Americans let the tumult die down, then tried again last February, this time in private. It was a process of wearing down the touchy Yugoslavs. U.S. Ambassador to Austria Llewellyn Thompson and British Assistant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Harrison got together almost surreptitiously in London to confer with Tito's representative. For four months, Tito's man haggled. The problem was to give Tito slightly more than Yugoslav-occupied Zone B, but so little more that the Italian government would not balk...
...high, bleak Karakoram, mightiest of the Himalayan ranges, China, Russia, India. Tibet. Afghanistan and Pakistan merge in a tumult of mountains. Dominating the peaks, in the northernmost corner of Pakistan-held Kashmir, is the world's second highest mountain: 28,250-ft. Mt. Godwin Austen, known to mountaineers as K-2.* For years, K-2 has been regarded as unclimbable. Last week the news came through that the unclimbable had been climbed by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio, 57, a geology professor at the University of Milan...
Behind Whitehall's traditional façcade of Cabinet unity, there were hints of tumult and clash. Sometimes it was handsome Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden (b. 1897; educ. Eton and Oxford) versus the tough-minded Marquess of Salisbury, Lord President of the Council (b. 1893; educ. Eton and Oxford); sometimes it was Eden versus Churchill, who was a Cabinet minister before Eden was twelve...