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Just Us Historians. In Akron, police raided a 9-by-12-ft. room, inside found two chairs, a bed, a table, a dresser, three pairs of dice, twelve decks of cards, one bottle of gin and 23 men who explained that they had gathered "to discuss current events...
...outside eyes, Café Filho is a careful dresser with a preference for dark blue pin-stripe suits, grey ties and white silk shirts. At home he likes to lounge around in pajamas, reading, sipping coffee and chain-smoking strong Brazilian cigarettes (Hollywoods). Younger-looking than most men of his age, he still takes an occasional early-morning dip in the Atlantic surf on Copacabana beach. Despite his extensive reading, he is less educated, less cultured than Vargas was-but he promises to make a better President...
...best-dressed men by some arbiter or other, Paul G. Hoffman, former ECAdministrator and now board chairman of Studebaker-Packard Corp., sighed and muttered: "When I get home, my house will be a hotbed of hoots and hollers. My family criticizes me for being a sloppy dresser...
...uranium mining-by taking over the Lisbon Uranium Co. (TIME. May 3). In Buenos Aires, Odlum emerged from a two-hour conference with President Juan Perón to announce that "an agreement in principle" had been reached on a 25-year oil-development contract between Argentina, Atlas, and Dresser Industries of Dallas, involving nearly $100 million. Odlum expects to sign the contract this week...
...foreign companies to come in without safeguards for their investments. He revised the investment law so that it put no limit on the percentage of profits that can be taken out of the country by petroleum investors. To appease his countrymen, Perón's deal with Atlas-Dresser provides that the U.S. companies explore and produce crude oil, after which Argentina will take over the refining and distribution. Dresser will supply the oil-drilling rigs, and Atlas the management and most of the capital. They will prospect for new fields in the Neuquén area, 600 miles...