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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Arnulfo Arias fled Panama for Costa Rica, crying that he had been robbed of the presidency (TIME, Aug. 16), Panama's President Enrique A. Jimenez was worried. He rushed troops to the northern border, and asked Neighbor Jose Figueres not to let Arnulfo use Costa Rica as a base for an armed comeback. Figueres promised. Last week, the Costa Rican government gave Arnulfo 24 hours to get out of the country...
Last week Ambassador Bruce was back in Washington talking things over. Bargain buying by the U.S. Army of small lots of Argentine beef, lamb and turkey for use in Germany suggested a far from united economic front against Argentina. What went on? EGA, which holds the strings of the biggest purse, gave Ambassador Bruce the score. The EGA would not spend a dime of the U.S. taxpayer's money in Argentina until the Peron government gave some hard & fast promises to: 1) sell to the U.S. at world prices; 2 ) sell to Marshall Plan countries at world prices...
...Tuberculosis of the intestines is one of the most feared complications of TB of the lungs. The newest hope is eight-year-old PAS (for para-amino-salicylic acid). A highly optimistic report of its use by two Swedish doctors appeared in the Swedish medical journal Laekartidningen. Drs. Bo Carstensen and Stig Sjoelin reported trying PAS on 22 men & women whose chances were "hopeless or dubious" by ordinary methods of treatment. After two to four weeks' treatment (five to 14 grams of PAS a day) all 22 were "completely or almost completely" cured of abdominal symptoms. Pain disappeared completely...
...Billy would "introduce modern lighting, staging, choreography and certain other elements of present-day stagecraft . . . without tampering with what is fine and traditionally right about grand opera." He also thought he could "fire and enthuse the staff into doing a more exciting job"-and the Met could certainly use a little of that. Chairman Sloan's reply was respectful as could be: he wanted to have another lunch with Billy "so that we may have the further benefit of your thinking based on your long and successful experience in the theatrical field." Snapped Billy: ". . . A gracious letter, although...
History students will study the methods of the historians from Thucydides to Tawney and Toynbee. Then they will study the raw material that a modern historian might have to use-statistics, opinion polls, propaganda, debates on the floor of Congress-to see what they can make of them...