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...subsided last week. The process of reshuffling the Cabinet continued, but President Joâo Café Filho calmly went ahead with his plans to fly from Rio this week on a nine-day trip to Portugal, the Brazilian motherland. One reason he could be calm was that the 36th International Eucharistic Congress is scheduled to convene in Rio in July. With 1,000,000 Roman Catholic visitors expected, leaders of all factions want to keep up a hospitable appearance of normality. In the Cabinet comings and goings, a new Finance Minister shouldered the burden of coping with inflation-ridden...
...center of warmth and hope for a little huddJe of maimed men. One sat with his stump tucked under him, an armless boy held his Bible in two hooks. Torrey slipped an elastic from around his Bible, parked it on his arm-hook, and then began reading the 36th Psalm...
When Nevada became the Union's 36th state, the bonanzas petered out and Virginia City became a ghost town. Its weekly's noblest achievement probably came at news of the Union victory over the South. For three days the Enterprise published nothing, not even the victory news. Writes Author Beebe: "Its staff, from owner to the least apprentice, was dissolved in [a] universal sea of whisky...
...Vice Presidents in history. Where are they? They were about as useful as a cow's fifth teat.'" When he first said it, Harry Truman was roughly right; but today, any generalization about the uselessness of Vice Presi dents falls over the example of Richard Nixon, 36th Vice President of the U.S., who is one of the busiest, most useful and most influential men in Washington...
...told. At the huge banquet given Nov. 7 by Foreign Minister Molotov to honor the 36th anniversary of the October revolution, almost all of the Soviet bigwigs-with the exception of Malenkov himself-and hundreds of lesser wigs gathered with members of Moscow's foreign diplomatic corps. As the evening wore on and tongues loosened by vodka and champagne began to wag more freely, the Westerners were able to get a significant insight into the frictions chafing the present sons of the revolution...