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...President Eisenhower one day last week Clare Booth Luce submitted her resignation. Taking global view from a vantage point high atop towers of Manhattan's fabled, fantastic Rockefeller Center was mellowing mate Henry R. Signposts pointed to a clear and tragic dilemma, resolved only by judicious sacrifice by Clare, chic and civic at fifty-five...
...with the Yankee Octupus." "Death Before Living as Slaves!" read the banners carried by students in the clouds of La Paz (alt. 11,900 ft.), capital of mineral-rich, dirt-poor, coup-prone Bolivia (pop. 3,300,000). The angry crowd was demonstrating against an article in magamogul Henry Luce's Time (circ. 2,300,000), quoting an unidentified American embassy official as having said that the only solution to Bolivia's problems was to "abolish Bolivia and let its neighbors divide the country and its problems among themselves...
...Lucid views and artless covers than for its accuracy, loves Rupublicans and America, dislikes Democrats and Nasser, eschews conjunctions. Despite these shortcomings it is a rollicking, frolicking smashit in the rough, tough dog-eat-dog newsmagazine game, has huge advertising revenues, publishes several international editions. Publisher Henry Luce, a semi-literate Yaleman (his wife is femalegate to Brazil Clare Booth Luce), was "unavailable for comment" today as irate mobs hurled Bolivitriol at the U.S. embassy and Information Office in reaction to the latest piece of Timeddling...
...streets of cloudy La Paz (alt. still 11,900 ft.) were in a turmoil, American officials were reported in hiding near the capital, pre-peregrination of personnel by plane from La Paz. Meanwhile, lordly Luce was still "unavailable for comment" in his 40th-floor office in the Time-Life Building in Manhattan's monument to money, Rockefeller Center...
...Only foreign diplomat to visit every one of vast Brazil's 25 states and territories, polished, amiable Old Latin America Hand Briggs built up a priceless fund of good will for the U.S. during his 2½ years in Brazil. Judged by her performance in Italy, Clare Luce can be depended on to add to the fund...