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Last week, for the 123rd year, it was carnival time in Rio, and for three howling days and four nights, all work stopped, except for the police and the hospital attendants. Everyone else-the rich and the poor, old and young-shucked street clothes and inhibitions and donned everything from jeweled and satin costumes at $5,000 to sequined bikinis, hand towels, burlap sacks and burnooses, and went out. Thousands of bottles of liquor, from Scotch to Brazil's own cachaça, distilled from sugar cane, vanished down thousands of dance-parched throats. In the streets...
...123rd Air Base Group
...sing the 123rd Psalm," called a big. broad-shouldered man in a fur-collared overcoat. The militant atheist leader knew what to do. "Break it up. citizens." he ordered and commanded the women to leave while they questioned the men. One of the group had arrived only that day from the Ukraine. "I got off the train and just asked passers-by where to find true believers," he said...
...first Crimson finisher was Dave Gregory, in 98th position, followed by Dave Cairns in 123rd position. Emil San Soucie, Hal Gerry, Steve Sharp, Bruce Phillips and Hugh Maguire trailed far back in the five-mile grind...
Shoup's was the 123rd Medal of Honor awarded in World War II (Army 67, Navy 29, Marines 26, Coast Guard 1), the third for Tarawa. The others went, posthumously, to two Texans, Lieut. William Deane Hawkins and Staff Sergeant William J. Bordelon...