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...cracked the murder plot. Her boy friend, she told her father, had smuggled back from Guatemala a submachine gun, of the type that killed Remón. Prosecuting Attorney Francisco Alvarado arrested the youth. The boy named Lawyer Ruben Miro, who had paid him $150 for the weapon. Miró confessed that he had killed Remón and three of his friends who were having a postrace party in the presidential box (TIME...
...landscapes by slick old Surrealist Max Ernst, and voted him one of the three grand prizes of $2,400, presumably for the importance of being Ernst. Another grand prize went to a roomful of gay blobs and squiggles done in primary colors by the artful Catalan, Joán MirÓ, who has made a career of painting like a five-year-old, only better. The grand prize for sculpture was awarded to playful and mysterious Alsatian Jean Arp and his crowd of polished bronze and marble lumps, each looking like a kernel of popcorn magnified many thousands of times...
...optimism seemed to be changing the minds of some pessimists. In the U.S. for a debate with U.S. Economist Wladi-mir S. Woytinsky, Australia's Colin Clark admitted: "I have raised my sights...
After that, Huett turned himself into a kind of street-corner John Kieran, with a sign on his back: "Ich sage Verse Dir; Gib einen Pfennig mir" ("I'll tell you a verse; you give me a penny.") Customers have flocked to him: schoolchildren who need help on their homework, and adults who want the words of the latest song. Huett has answered everything from "What happens in Schiller's Joan of Arc?" to "Recite some verses from Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz," has even been known to recite a geometric theorem or two. About...
...Ousted in Azerbaijan: Premier Mir Dzhafar Bagirov, one of four alternate members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This was the highest-ranking arrest since Beria...