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...Santos last week steamed the Dutch freighter Ruys. Aboard was ex-President Jānio Quadros, 45, whose petulant resignation seven months ago plunged Brazil into chaos, disillusion and disrepair. He came home in triumph. When the Ruys docked, Jānio, tanned, a bit flushed, and about 10 lbs. heavier than when he sailed away last August, walked into a swarm of 10,000 almost fanatic fans...
...report urges that the British government conduct a massive publicity campaign to discourage smoking, especially among children and adolescents. The committee suggests a much heavier tax on cigarettes, and restrictions on cigarette advertising as well. It remains to be seen whether the British government will act on the report and its proposals, which a separate Danish Medical Commission has also supported...
...Wants. In the pint-sized company of jockeys, Shoemaker is a half-pint (4 ft. 11 in., 98 Ibs.) who eats anything he wants, never visits the sweatbox, can make the weight for any horse-unlike such outsized jockeys as Arcaro (112 Ibs.), who must be fitted to heavier-handicapped horses. Unemotional as Ben Hogan, uncommunicative as Calvin Coolidge, he is well liked by his fellow jocks, well known only by close friends. He is one of the world's richest athletes. His income from racing alone averages about $250,000 a year, and he has interests...
With these dinners the Rashmon provides excellent soups (either a sparkling clear broth or a heavier beancurd soup), Japanese pickled vegetables, rice and vokan (Japanese beanjelly) for dessert...
...which so effectively expresses the sensation of rising--as the brilliant fireball rises, "it draws up a vast amount of earth.... A little later this material, condensing in the cold upper air like rain or snow, starts falling back to earth because, like ash from a fire, it is heavier than air." The metaphors lead us, as they should, to relate nuclear fallout to our everyday experience. Incidentally, the pamphlet informs those who didn't know, "it is called fallout because it falls...