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...Ireneo Fernando Cruz, realistic rector of the budding University of Cuyo, had organized the Congress of Philosophy. Object: to boost the prestige of Argentina and its government, on which all Argentine universities depend for handouts...
...Cruz had more than verbal persuasion to work with. Perón's government had granted 600,000 pesos for expenses, and impecunious professors could thus be offered a handsome junket with all expenses paid, plus 25 pesos a day for spending money and a bonus of 2,000 pesos for reading a paper. That did the trick, and brought in many of Europe's and Latin America's philosophical bigwigs...
...starlit night four years ago, in the ruins of Santa Cruz Church, the Manila Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert since the Japanese invasion. In the audience were eight G.I.s from Brooklyn who never forgot the concert or its conductor: Vienna-born Dr. Herbert Zipper, who had survived Hitler's Dachau and Buchenwald, and two of Tojo's Philippine hellholes...
...August, 1941, he entered the Navy as a public relations officer and was soon transferred to sea duty on the U.S.S. Enterprise. Four years aboard "The Big E," he saw it through almost every major Pacific naval campaign from Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal to the Gilberts and Marshalls. He was paid off in 1946 as the ship's First Lieutenant. Today, his ground-floor office at the northeast corner of Weld is still littered with books and documents about the war, which he is using in preparation of a pictures-and-text book commemorating the exploits and crew...
...first confused days, the military facts of the invasion had been wildly exaggerated. Actually, the invading force numbered scarcely 300, including 100 tattered, malaria-ridden Nicaraguans. They had occupied the border village of La Cruz, then sat down to wait for the internal uprising that never came...