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Sure, it's just the first round, but in this kind of tournament the first game sets the table. Which means, alas, that Austria and Switzerland, the co-hosts, are likely to go hungry. "That was a really hard loss," a Swiss friend e-mailed after his "Nati" went down, gamely, 1-0, to a competent if unimpressive Czech side to open the tourney. Too bad. Basel was ready to party...
...authoritarianism, irresponsible economic programs and obsessive devotion to the memory of its founder, the late dictator Juan Perdn, had exhausted the Argentines' patience. Now, in a remarkable display of confidence, they have pinned their hopes on Alfonsin. In a poll published in the respected newspaper La Natión last week, the public awarded him 8.9 points for leadership qualities out of a possible...
...Baconian found his inspiration in the fact that both Bacon and Shakespeare used the word honorificabili-tudinitatibus. He divided the word into two parts, spelled the first backward (BACIFIRONOH), declared this to be an anagram for FR BACONO. From the rest of the letters, he got HI LUDI TUITI NATI SIBI, which taken all together spelled "These Plays, produced by Francis Bacon, guarded for themselves...
JOURNALISM. Since the murder of La Prensa (TIME, March 12, et seq.), Buenos Aires' last surviving independent daily is La Natión-proud, conservative, accurate. Argentines who hunger for honest news instead of government pap now queue up at the paper's office at 6 a.m. to buy the few extra copies available (Perón controls the newsprint and holds the circulation down to 180,000 daily). Dealers sell copies for 25 times the normal price. When La Natión reported last week's rail strike factually instead of parroting the government line...
...flag at half-staff in mourning for the Perón-suppressed La Prensa. The Washington Post urged newspapers to do so too. On mourning day, three days later, newspapers, press clubs and radio stations all through the Western Hemisphere lowered their flags. Buenos Aires' doughty La Natión, Argentina's last important independent daily, noted the demonstration in a brief, straightforward account. But the Peronista La Epoca set the note for the rest of Argentina's press: "Yellow journalists and gangsters are lowering the flag of piracy...