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...Bogotá last week a sewer explosion sent Colombians to their knees in supplication. They thought it was The Bomb. Almost everywhere else in the hemisphere, the rumble of politics and the rattle of poker chips drowned out Bikini's blast. Democrats shouted, and dictators swung their whips. Strong men gambled for high stakes and played penny ante on the side...
...Union began to poll its members on postponement of the Rio conference. Onto the bridge stepped Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes: postponement would be agreeable to the U.S. if other nations wanted it. Then the Colombians, who will entertain all 21 republics at a regular Pan American conference at Bogotá next December, obligingly suggested that the whole business of a military treaty be put off till then...
...Alfonso Lopez, President of Colombia, and hundreds of other Latin American subscribers received their copies of the Election Issue (printed in Bogotá) just one day later than subscribers in New York and Chicago. ¶ By the time you read this letter, the full election story will have galloped with TIME'S Pony Edition to our troops in Germany-flown with TIME'S Calcutta Edition to G.I.s deep in the jungles of Burma and India -reached interned U.S. airmen far in the north of Sweden through the pages of the Scandinavian Edition we print behind the German blockade...
...cabled our election report to our pressmen in Bogotá and Sao Paulo-sent it by special facsimile transmission to Buenos Aires - radio-photoed it to Honolulu so the printers who turn out 100,000 copies of TIME in the mid-Pacific each week could hold to their regular schedules...
...Here are the 20 editions of TIME, printed on every continent except Antarctica. TIME U. S. (four printings) Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Classroom; TIME Canadian; TIME Air Express for Latin America (five printings); Export, Mexico City, Bogotá, Buenas Aires, Sào Paulo; TIME Overseas (three printings); Export Honolulu, Stockholm; TIME for the Armed Forces (seven printings); Pony, Pacific Pony, VMail, Sydney, Calcutta, Teheran, Cairo...