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...hearty, smiling man with a grey mane and snapping eyes stepped out of his airplane and into the warmest welcome that a grateful nation could give a favorite son. Bands tooted, crowds cheered, and friends and relatives rushed forward to be crushed in his warm abraco (hug). Oswaldo Aranha, president of the General Assembly of the United Nations, was back home...
Larger Pasture. Now the whole world was the ex-Gaucho's pasture. No longer could Aranha's foes charge that he danced to the U.S. or any other fiddle. Against U.S. opposition, he had maneuvered the Ukraine into the Security Council and pushed through the Assembly a modified and generalized Soviet resolution against "warmongering." He kidded the Russians out of their delaying verbosity so skillfully that Andrei Gromyko reportedly admitted: "He is anti-Russian but he is also objective and impartial when presiding." The middle way-mediation between the extremes-is Aranha's hopeful course to world...
Family Album. This week, Aranha was enjoying his pleasantly tumultuous home (Senhora Aranha never knows how many to expect to dinner) on one of the precipitous lavender hills of his favorite city. "Man did much for New York," he says, "God did much for Rio." He chattered with his two sons, Oswaldo Jr., 26, and Euclides, 27, and his daughter Delminda, 24. He dashed next door to see his 74-year-old mother, Doña Luiza, who bore 21 children and continues to advise the close-knit family brood on all matters public and private. On Saturday, Racing Enthusiast...
...Friday, a victory for partition looked probable. But when the Assembly president, Brazil's Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, was about to call for a vote, the Arabs won another delay. France's Alexandre Parodi rose. France, afraid of unrest among her 13,000,000 Moslem nationals in North Africa, hesitated to support partition. "We have come to the moment of decision," said Parodi, "and I feel certain misgivings. . . ." Was there really no possible ground for compromise, he wondered? Parodi got a 24-hour recess...
...efforts to reach adjournment by November 25, the U.N. Assembly may shelve debate on the controversial big power veto, an authoritative source stated yesterday in New York. Assembly President Aranha of Brazil called on the 14-nation steering committee to meet today to discuss progress and methods of speeding conclusion of the current session...