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...cities and provinces is an old Argentine custom, practiced by several Presidents before Perón, and recognized by the nation's constitution. But Perón had not intervened an entire province for seven years, and Argentines assumed that he must have urgent reasons for the crackdown. According to stories floating about Buenos Aires, Perónista officials in the three provinces had gone in heavily for nepotism and graft, but last week Minister Borlenghi tried to dispel such unpleasant talk. "I want to make it clear," he said, "that none of the charges have to do with...
Praise the U.S. Party Secretary Khrushchev's cure for Soviet economic ills fell into two parts: 1) increasing wheat production in Siberia and the development of U.S.-type animal husbandry in western Russia and the Ukraine, 2) a crackdown on consumer industry and consumer spending in favor of a buildup of heavy industry. He even found himself praising the U.S. to make a point. Khrushchev is impressed by the way "Americans have succeeded in achieving a high level of animal husbandry." The answer for Soviet Russia, he said, is the widespread U.S. planting of hybrid corn for fodder. Khrushchev...
Captain of Traffic Patrick J. McCarthy said yesterday that the crackdown would probably continue, for more policemen have been assigned to night duty in response to complaints of the city street cleaning and snow removal departments...
...Howard, still reeling from last fall's municipal crackdown on burlesque, may soon become the site of a modern parking structure. City officials are studying the proposal and will hold a hearing Nov. 18 to detect public reaction to the project...
Naming Plympton, Dunster, and Holyoke Sts. as the main trouble areas, McCarthy stated his department had hardly even handed out over 100 tickets in a day until this crackdown...