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...confusion, three Peronista Deputies, using wet handkerchiefs as makeshift gas masks, managed to slip into the building where 65 other Deputies were trying to hold a session. When the Peronistas arrived to take their seats, the chamber erupted into bedlam-many Deputies loudly defended their presence, some screamed insults at them. Becerra vainly shouted for order, but gave up in despair. He ordered the chamber lights turned off and left the room. The Deputies filed from the building, trying to pick their way between police and rioting Peronistas. One Deputy, slowed by a lame leg, was hit in the chest...
This month so far, some 40,000 Chinese have tried to slip into the city-and a Hong Kong newspaper reported that 700,000 more...
British border patrols round up the "illegal immigrants" by the hundreds, but 20% of the border crossers slip through the dragnet, aided by relatives in Hong Kong and by say-tau (literally, snake heads). The say-tau sneak into the hills across the frontier and, for a price, supply the refugees with city clothing to replace their conspicuous peasant garb and with information about the safest routes into the city. Captured refugees are herded into a processing camp, questioned, fed, and then sent back across the frontier to the mainland. This month, more than 30,000 have been sent back...
...Better Half. These confident words could not have come at a better time for the U.S. economy. For weeks past, executives in many areas of U.S. business have been increasingly outspoken in their fears that 1962 may slip by without bringing them the really strong recovery they had expected after last year's recession. By contrast, Detroit looks forward tc a year in which auto sales, including foreign imports, seem likely to hit at least 6,700,000 cars-a figure second only to 1955's record 7,170,000. Since the auto industry and its suppliers account...
Absent, too, was dapper, Paris-born Baron Nicolas De Gunzburg, 57, who. in this fashionable game of musical chairs, remains firmly seated behind his desk as fashion editor of Vogue. Nicky has sat there for 13 years, and no mere slip of a woman is likely to replace...