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Unpopular Task. Frondizi won office with Peronista votes, and his first political instinct was to repay the favor with such spendthrift sops as massive wage rises. But Frondizi, son of an Italian immigrant roadbuilder, is a responsible lawyer and political economist, and he soon made a different choice. He swapped Peronista support for army backing and began the dangerous, unpopular job of making Argentina live within its means. First, he coolly downgraded the ineffectual, sacred-cow national oil monopoly, by inviting foreign oilmen to develop Argentina's petroleum resources. The first new well came in last week, beginning...
...puritanical steward, by a group of cheerful tosspots--a little joke which has occasionally struck critics as cruel, since Malvolio is at one point chained in a dungeon as a madman. Before Mr. Heeley's backcloth, under Mr. Benthall's guidance, it appears a mild, if merry, escapade, instinct with finesse...
...some instinct rather than memory, Koi led Loureiro to camps of his people, which proved to be pathetic palm-leaf shelters set in tiny jungle clearings. The camps were always empty, but piles of fresh coconut shells and animal bones proved that Xetás were near. Logs showed charred holes where fires had been kindled by friction. At last, in the sixth camp, Professor Loureiro" found a stone ax. "It was fantastic," he said. "A Stone Age implement in actual use by living hands...
Rickover's Rakeover. With a seaman's instinct for omens, Commander Anderson early spotted his future. As a boy, in Bakerville, Tenn., he and a playmate would seal off most of the decks of a couple of rowboats, invert the craft on the river, poke their heads into the unsealed air pockets and stage mock U-boat fights. Annapolis trained, with an outstanding submariner record in World War II and Korea (Trutta, Tang, Wahoo), Anderson was tapped for duty with Admiral Hyman Rickover's NRB (Naval Reactors Branch) in January 1956. First came an interview with...
Oregonians recognize U.S. Senator Wayne Morse's instinct for the political jugular, but until last week they never realized that it extended even to a right-to-work-for-Wayne-Morse law. Last week all Oregon learned what the Senator's neighbors in Eugene have known for two months: that fiery Democratic (and ex-Republican) Liberal Morse had fired a part-time gardener, horse handler and 25-year friend because the 65-year-old handyman dared defend Dwight Eisenhower to Morse's face...