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...Miguel Miranda, sat trim, cheerful Colonel Enrique P. González. A bitter and outspoken foe of Evita, he had been presidential secretary in the regime of Pedro Ramirez, who was overthrown by Perón in 1944 for planning to break relations with the Axis. González bore the brand-new title of Immigration Director, but few Argentines had to be told that his real job was to keep an eye on the President's office...
...Church." In many ways, the Prince-Primate lived like the parish priest. In his vast, gloomy Esztergom palace, he used only a dining room and a bedsitting room (never heated) where he received visitors. On the table which under Mindszenty's predecessors bore the exquisite weight of geese and pheasant and rich Hungarian wine, only one hot meal a day was set before the Primate. On Fridays, he ate only bread & water as a sacrifice for Hungary's liberation from Communism...
Along Lisbon's sunny streets last week nearly all available space was filled with election posters. One bore the likeness of Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, a 79-year-old general and pompous figurehead. The legend on the poster was: "Dois homens uma só obra"-two men with one work. Opponents of the regime had crossed out the a in uma, which changed the meaning: two men, one goes to the bathroom...
...Turley was no Sarah,* but there are few cases on record of childbearing at 59. In the 18th Century, Lucas Debes wrote of a Scandinavian woman who supposedly became pregnant at 103. Pliny reported that Cornelia of the family of Serpius bore a son at 60. Probably the oldest case known to scientific record, reported in 1882, is a Scottish woman who gave birth to her 22nd child...
...windup of the program, a rally in Constitution Hall, drew a near-capacity crowd of 3,600. Speakers bore down heavily on Catholics who want state support for church schools. Said Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "One of the most important bastions of the fortress of religious liberty is the American principle of the separation of church and state. A full-scale attack upon this principle . . . has been launched by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church . . . The Roman Catholic Church does not believe in the separation of church and state . . . The question of public support for parochial education does...