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Divorced. Luis ("El Vate") Muñoz Marin, 48, broody-eyed President of Puerto Rico's Senate, founder and guiding spirit of the Popular Democratic Party, political hero of the poverty-stricken jibaros (hill people); by Muna Lee, 51, Mississippi-born poetess after 27 years of marriage, two children; in San Juan...
Idea Man. In Colorado Springs, Pri vate Joseph Hollingsworth walked into the police station, announced that he had murdered his wife last March. In Seattle, police found Mrs. Hollingsworth very much alive. Said she: "Joe . . . gets funny ideas...
...division who had committed the same heinous crime. They were fed on C rations during this time, given a pro-(that's funny to us) and finally taken back to the rest center in time to catch their return boat under armed guard." Concluded Corporal Brennan and Pri vate Sill with restrained wrath: "Do re sponsible authorities ever realize the effect an incident like this has on the morale of troops at the front...
Nioman Fellowships, usually about twelve a year, have been offered during the past five years at Harvard under the bequest of Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the late Lucius W. Nieman. Publisher of the Milwaukee Journal given "to etc. vate and promote the standards of your nalism in America" Harvard has applied the Nieman funds to the support of annual Fellowships to working newspaper men for a year's study on leave from their papers. A fellowship pays the salary of the man during his leave form his. Until now the Fellowships have permitted work in any department...
...currency managed by the state; 6) running up annual deficits of billions of dollars, while using the national debt as an instrument of managerial social policy; 7) imposing taxes to secure social and political ends rather than income; 8) weakening capital relative to themselves by curtailing pri vate property rights in measure after measure ; 9 ) the taking over by the executive bureaus of the attributes and func tions of sovereignty: "the bureaus become the de facto 'law makers.' " Burnham believes that the gradual reduction of parliaments (the congress of Soviets, the Reichstag) to a mere sounding board...