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...policy. He himself reaffirmed it. But he was plainly worried about its effect both at home and among his South American neighbors. He had arranged various policy-defending junkets. His Minister of War, General Juan N. Tonazzi, had gone to Paraguay. A military mission headed by Inspector General Martin Gras was about to leave for Peru. President Castillo, himself this week planned to meet Bolivia's President General Enrique Peñaranda at the Bolivian border. But it was the Brazilian junket of General Justo, who wanted to fight the Axis, which was most likely to impress Argentina...
Missing were the private carfuls of big spenders, the planeloads of Hollywood merry-go-rounders and the toney tipplers who have made Derby Day an uproarious Kentucky Mardi Gras. Instead, local folks, with boom money in their jeans, jostled around wide-eyed as at a county fair -many seeing the Derby for the first time...
Beverly C. Dunn Jr., of Seattle, Wash, as Teaching Fellow in Electronics; A.M. Harvard '42; Leverett S. Tuckerman Jr., of Salem, Mass., as Teaching Fellow in Electronics; A.M. Harvard '42; Edwin C. Gras, of Cambridge, Mass., as Teaching Fellow in Alternating Currents; A.M. Harvard '40; Herbert Jehle, of Cambridge, Mass., as Instructor in Physics; Dr. Engin. Berlin '33; Jackson E. Morris, of Hoquiam, Wash., as Teaching Fellow in Physics; A.M. Harvard '41; R. Ross Lamoreaux, of Santa Barbara, Calif, as Bigelow Fellow, School of Education; M.S.Ed. University of Southern California '40; William H. D. Vernon, of Brussels, ont. Canada...
...carnival spirit usually reserved for its Mardi Gras, the New Orleanians prepared to add the war-orphaned East-West football game* to the seven lusty events (all for $10) that already constitute Sugar Bowl week. Sugar Bowl week is only seven years old. But it has already challenged the prestige of Pasadena's 25-year-old Rose Bowl. Nucleus of the program is a New Year's Day football game between the two best college teams available (at a guarantee of $70,000 apiece to their athletic departments...
...Many another baseball town has gone wild over a pennant victory. But Brooklyn's faithful fans-victims of an inferiority complex provoked by the pompous, pennant-heavy New York Giants and Yankees across the river-burst into a demonstration last week that looked like New Orleans' Mardi Gras, New Year's Eve in Times Square and the 1918 Armistice...