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...little news did leak out. Hochschild, jailed twice as a political conspirator, had vanished during the Bolivian national elections. The story was that he had been kidnapped by a group of Army officers pledged to remove all active opponents of Bolivia's new regime. One of the regime's professed aims is to whittle down the power of the three mining magnates (Simón I. Patiño, Carlos Victor Aramayo, Hochschild) who have long dominated Bolivian politics...
News of a sensationally successful new fountain pen called Stratopen, which uses a ball bearing instead of a pen point, came from Argentina last week. One of its advantages: it does not leak at high altitudes. In the past three months Argentines have bought up the entire output of 20,000, and last week the U.S. Army was reported dickering for the pen's manufacture...
During the excitement, the Bolivian Congress met as an Electoral College. After some tense maneuvering, it promoted Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel to legal President. The relation between the election and Hochschild's disappearence, though rumored, did not leak out through tight Bolivian censorship...
...Washington the Navy let word leak out that it had reduced all of its fighter-plane production, even that of Long Island's famed Grumman Aircraft (Hellcats and Wildcats). Before long the Navy, pleased at the low losses in small landing craft on the French beachhead, expects to cut back this program, which has had a longtime No. 1 priority...
Attorney General Francis Biddle hailed the indictment as "shutting off one of the worst leaks of strategic materials . . . to the enemy." But what mystified many a plain citizen, as well as financier, was: Why had the Justice Department waited two years to plug the "worst leak...