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This week, hobbling on a cane to prop a leg hurt on an Italian holiday last summer, the old Chancellor prepared to fly to London to persuade Britain that the Federal Republic has not put all its eggs in De Gaulle's basket...
...most of its 460-year history, Brazil was a country of Portuguese masters and Indian or Negro slaves. To harvest the sugar cane, mine the gold, and fell the mighty dyewood (brazil) that gave the country its name, slavers imported sturdy Negroes by the boatload from Africa. Greatest concentration of slave labor was in Salvador, capital of Bahia on Brazil's northeast bulge, which even today is the most African city (pop. 417,000) in the New World...
Senator Russell Long from cane-growing Louisiana, who will have a powerful voice when the next quotas are written, says : "I don't think we should be favoring a country that is practically waging war on us." But, North Carolina's Representative Harold Cooley, whose Agriculture Committee will initiate the law, plans to try to put over an extension of present quotas for the "probationary" period of one year...
...their work to the notorious prewar "Australian crawl," the overall impact of ambitious immigrants has been to force the Old Australians to hump harder. Eager, gifted immigrant children are grabbing top honors in Melbourne and Adelaide high schools. In Queensland, Italians have become a major factor in the sugar-cane industry. Two Dutch immigrants are marketing a new plastic film to seal the bottom of sheep-station ponds and thereby save the precious water in the outback from leaking away. Australia's world-beating teenage swimmers, John and Ilsa Konrads, were born in Latvia...
Junior Weekend in Philadelphia gives the students a chance to display their dinks, buttons, or skimmers. The festivities started Thursday with the traditional Cane Walk, in which the juniors parade around the campus wth bought ($1.30) or borrowed canes that symbolize the advancement from a wise fool to an to an upperclassman. A pep rally followed that night. On Friday night the Junir Prom took place, replete with Prom Queen and all the trappings. The fraternities made posters for the Navy football game, and a group of blazered, skimmered Penn humorists trotted out a she-goat with a sign saying...