Word: christiano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stocks & Solitaires. What does he encounter on the way but a "pair of tender eyes which seemed to repeat the prophet's exhortation, 'Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.' " The trouble is, Sophia is already married to Christiano, an amiable young businessman whose soul, alas, "is a patchwork quilt." Though he would kill the man who touched his wife, Christiano is flattered when men try. This suits Sophia, a flirt with "an intuitive appreciation of solitaires." It also suits Rubião. To keep his welcome sweet at Christiano's, he lends...
...United Nations Council of Harvard last night announced the election of its officers for 1952: Richard T. Watson '54. President: John R. Rodman '54, and Gerald W. Gorman '54. Vice-Presidents; Alfred M. King '54, and Albert R. Christiano '54, Secretaries, and David Korn '54, Treasurer...
Last week things were different. In Rio, the Supreme Court, acting in its capacity as the country's Supreme Electoral Tribunal, formally proclaimed Vargas victor in last October's presidential election. The official count: Vargas, 3,820,560; Briga-deiro Eduardo Gomes, 2,288,105; Christiano Machado, 1,653,521. From his ranch in the south, Getulio began a stately progress toward Rio and next week's inaugural ceremonies. When he met Sao Paulo's Governor Adhemar de Barros to talk over the new cabinet, so many well-wishers surrounded him that he had to sneak...
...Electoral Board No. 13 opened the first presidential ballots. The judge looked at the first ballot and intoned: "The first vote is for Getulio Vargas." The second, third and fourth ballots were also for Vargas. Not until the fifth ballot did Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes score. The first vote for Christiano Machado, the government's candidate, was recorded even later...