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...instinct, Juan Perón immediately turned the demonstration into anti-U.S. propaganda. After two days in jail, the offenders were brought into the office of Minister of Interior Angel Borlenghi, where they were told that, except for one Máximo Guillermo Mantel, they would all be freed through presidential mercy. A search of Mantel's house, said Borlenghi, had turned up a diary with an entry under July 4 which read: "Independence day of the United States. The most glorious of all days. Our big sister." Thundered Borlenghi: "This proves that this episode was directed from...
...letter to a British friend, one day in 1934, Poet Ezra Pound was in a complaining mood: the world had all but lost contact with the classics, and it was high time someone did something about it. What was needed, said Pound, was a whole new series of translations, freed of the false and stilted elegance of those then in print. "The border line between 'gee whiz' and Milton's tumified* dialect must exist," Pound wrote. Why didn't his friend try to find...
...price of potatoes. As a result, farmers increased their plantings just to sell to the Government. Two years ago, horrified at the mountains of surplus potatoes, Congress junked the potato support program. Fearful of a price slump, farmers cut their 1951 plantings 20%, even though the demand for potatoes, freed from the artificially high prices of the support program, was increasing...
...Cohen considers that his own psychology is now sound again. "Writing the thesis was a catharsis for me," he says. "I'm freed of my troubles." He has remarried, has a baby daughter, and is practicing in Arnhem...
Conditioned Reflex. In Melbourne, Australia, Thomas Joseph O'Shea was freed on a charge of insulting a policeman after he told the judge that his cough, and not the passing cop, had made him stick out his tongue...