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Last week a Chilean Government bureau brought the wrath of the Catholic press on its head by bravely pointing this out. In the first issue of the 970-page Anuario D.I.C., a sort of Chilean World Almanac, the Direction Informaciones y Cultura denied the popular belief that Chile was 90% Catholic. Its religious breakdown: Freethinkers, 70%; Catholics, 25%; Protestants and others, 5%. The Anurio's explantation: only 25% of the so-called Catholics were regular churchgoers, and therefore "true Catholics...
...using this principle, says hearty Jean Le Gall of the French Bureau of Fisheries, it may be possible to develop a practical, commercial fish-ASDIC. The captain of a fishing boat equipped with such a device would need to do little guessing. He would turn on his ASDIC, and all fish within range would echo back, "Here...
...Wednesday night-V.J. plus 365-the United Press carried a story from their Buenos Aires bureau of an interview with Dr. Santiago Peralta, Director of Migration in the Peron government. An interview which, on the anniversary of the end of World War II, sounded the first Fascist call to arms for World War III. Peralta announced bluntly that in the near future 1,000 Norwegian quislings would be allowed to enter and settle in the Argentine, and went on to say that arrangements have almost been completed whereby General Anders' notorious Polish Army would also be granted admission...
Tamara is the pretty, 24-year-old wife of plump, jovial Eddy Gilmore, the A.P.'s Moscow Bureau chief, now on leave in the U.S. It took a cable from Wendell Willkie to Joseph Stalin to make their marriage possible. Tamara Chernashova was a dancer in Moscow's famous ballet until some bureaucrat transferred her so that she would not see too much of the American reporter. (Their two-year-old daughter is named Victoria Wendell...
...Curtiss-Wright as executive assistant to the president went square-jawed Rear Admiral Lawrence B. Richardson, 49, recently Deputy and Assistant Chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. Almost 30 years in the Navy, Admiral Richardson qualified to fly all types of naval aircraft in 1925, promptly made their design and manufacture his specialty...