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...Italy or Japan? The game started in London, when after his operation on Nov. 22, he registered in three hotels at once, stood up Prime Minister Harold Macmillan for lunch, and moved on to the Continent. Even Brazilian newsmen trying to follow him lost the trail. Early in December, his diplomatic passport was checked through a customs line at Madrid's Barajas Airport, but no one seems to have seen him. He was reported in Rome by Brazil's Madrid embassy and in Madrid by the Rome embassy...
...have registered at the Grand Hotel Duomo using his wife's maiden name of Silva. He was rumored to have visited a Florence art gallery, from there reported ly drove on to Rome and an unidentified friend's villa at Ostia, 20 miles from Rome, where a Brazilian embassy spokes man helpfully announced: "I can't even tell you if he's in Italy or Japan." At week's end, he was supposedly headed for Belgrade to see Marshal Tito...
...task force centered around the sub Odax rendezvoused first with the Venezuelan and Colombian fleets in the Caribbean, then maneuvered with Ecuador's navy, turned south and linked up simultaneously with the Peruvian and Chilean navies. Finally, it conducted a four-nation maneuver with Argentine, Uruguayan and Brazilian ships. The operation's longest air patrol, 11 hr. and 15 min., was flown by a Brazilian Neptune, which circled so aggressively over its sub-contact area that a reporter aboard wrote, "It looked like the dipping wing tank was going to hit the wave crests...
...Brazil, the Odax joined Brazil's two subs in a "wolf pack" that attempted to ambush the four-nation exercise fleet. Two Neptunes, one Brazilian and the other U.S., quickly spotted the subs, dived low simulating rocket attacks, called in 13 destroyers of four countries for depth-charge runs. Umpires ruled all three subs sunk. Announced Burke later: "Unitas was a great success. It improved the capabilities of all." Plans for next year: more and bigger joint maneuvers...
...Brazilian Amazon Development Agency lent him $125,000 to start his rubber and Brazil nut groves, but since they take seven years before they bear fruit, he planted sugar cane for a quicker crop. It grew fast- 18 ft. high. To make the most of it he had to process it into a product he could sell locally. Friends in Texas dug up $30,000 to build the distillery...