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...horrible, indifferent, heinous crimes of U.S. teen-agers today-appalling! But, then, one goes on to read the rest of your magazine about their glorious elders, and the teen-agers are absolved of guilt. Their so-called "crimes" are the most harmless pranks compared to those who would wield tanks, H-bombs and death for millions. Please, somebody right the world . . . and above all don't blame the young whom we have created in our own image...
William Randolph Hearst is dead-as dead as yesterday's tabloid. But his name, like a faded headline, is a yellowing memento of the Yellow Age of U.S. journalism, when the potentate of the penny press sometimes seemed to wield more power than the President, when live bullets flew and dead bodies fell in circulation wars, and a newspaper was often the last place anybody looked for news...
...considered a demagogue and dangerous leftist by Brazil's conservative military brass was finally installed as the nation's chief executive. His legal powers were sharply limited under a constitutional amendment changing the government from a presidential to a parliamentary system. How much actual power he might wield depended on how well he got on with his Prime Minister and with Brazil's fractious, many-partied Congress...
Paradoxically, the attack on freer trade comes at a time when protectionist sentiment in the business community seems to be declining. Dun's Review, querying 260 corporation presidents, reported that nearly 60% of them firmly oppose tariffs. But protectionists wield increasing political influence. Southern Congressmen who used to be major advocates of free trade have become increasingly protectionist. The cause: the once agrarian South is now more interested in building a tariff shelter over its burgeoning industries than in finding overseas markets for its cotton...
Economy Begins at Home. "I am going to wield the broom," he promised on inauguration night, "by the handle." Where Kubitschek ran his palace like an open house. Quadros ran it like a Marine barracks. He tossed Kubitschek's luxurious furnishings out of the executive offices, fired the fancy chef (he prefers beef, rice and beans), returned Kubitschek's $8,000 grand piano. "Economy," he said, "begins at home." Aides no longer walked; they ran. Locks barred the presidential doors, and red and green traffic lights informed ministers when to knock, when to wait. In the halls, guards...