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Conferred on General Mark Clarlc, Chief of Army Field Forces, by Brazil's President Eurico Gaspar Dutra: the honorary rank of general in the Brazilian army. Invited to dedicate a new industrial exhibit hall named in his honor in Berlin: General George Marshall, wartime U.S. Army Chief of Staff. Greeted in Berlin by hordes of Germans who pelted him with flowers: Philadelphia Adman Frank Howley, onetime Commandant of the city's U.S. sector...
Into Rio's Palacio Tiradentes one afternoon this week strode well-groomed Professor Pereira Lira, President Eurico Gaspar Dutra's personal counselor. He carried a heavy, leather-bound pile of papers, which he placed on the speaker's desk in the Chamber of Deputies. To the opening session of the Brazilian Congress the president had sent a 130,000-word message on the state of the nation...
...deliver this week at the closing session of Rio's Inter-American Defense Conference and the joint session of the Brazilian Congress, and get set for a round of official festivities unmatched in Brazilian history (see LATIN AMERICA). At the request of Brazilian President Eurico Gaspar Dutra, he would extend his stay from five to seven days, to help celebrate Brazil's 125th Independence Day. The big fiesta would be a pleasure for Harry Truman, who always has a wonderful time and does a wonderful good-will job on trips abroad...
Extremist. Architect Niemeyer is a Communist and he works diligently at being a Communist. During last winter's elections, he sold the Communist Tribuna Popular in Rio's streets. It did not raise his stock with conservative President Eu rico Gaspar Dutra. Last week, Dutra was reported to have canceled a contract recently awarded to Niemeyer for a great aeronautical center near Sao Paulo-an air city with hangars, workshops, hospital, stadia, schools and apartments...
...beaches. Others packed the small square before Tiradentes Palace. Within, while society leaders tossed flowers from the balcony, members of the Constituent Assembly signed the constitution of Brazil's Third Republic. Then they paraded to the Presidential palace. "This opens a new era," said President Eurico Gaspar Dutra...