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The ex-strongman's Venezuelan command post is a comfortable apartment on the eighth floor of an apartment building in a Caracas residential neighborhood. Protected from unwanted visitors by Venezuelan Seguridad National guards in the lobby downstairs and on the street outside, Perón works on comeback plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Exile at Work | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

After fiddling his way through the first movement of a Brahms concerto in Miami Beach, famed Violinist Isaac Stern, deeply annoyed by an unwanted metronome, insistent and offbeat, stalked off the stage, announcing: "That noise disturbs me. I cannot play with that competition!" His offending accompanist: a cricket that had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

THRILLS!'' trumpets the April cover of Dell's Modern Romances. Wails quarterly Secret Confessions' current cover line: "I COMMITTED ADULTERY!" Inside the slick color covers, the so-called "confession" or "romance" magazines come through with sagas of sex and suffering that make the most lurid tabloid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tin from Sin | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

On the heels of a California state senate investigation aimed at keeping Hollywood smut out of the scandal magazines (TIME, March 11), a federal grand jury in Chicago last week struck at the nation's best-selling scandal magazine for putting smut in the mail. In a six-count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Confidential Revisited | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Another Third Republic tradition, the rapid succession of cabinets, has also been an unwanted feature of the Fourth Republic. Cabinets give up too soon, taking any parliamentary defeat as a rejection of their whole administration, and resign before the Assembly actually votes no-confidence. Also, votes of no-confidence and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fourth Republic | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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