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Delegates of Brazil's biggest political party gathered in Rio last week and noisily chose a presidential candidate for next October's election. The nominee Juscelino Kubitschek, 53, samba-dancing, spellbinding governor of the Texas-sized inland state of Minas Gerais. After the balloting (1,646 to 0, with 279 abstentions), Kubitschek's followers roared his longtime political theme song, Peixe Vivo (Living Fish), an old Portuguese ballad...
...creation of "atomic sanitized corridors" and beachheads efficiently scoured up to 70 miles inland might be militarily feasible, but rather unpractical politically. The end result of such a local war might be that the unfortunate recipient of such protection would be effectively purged of all political colorations-purged so completely, in fact, that its territory like the shadow of its national soul would lie grey and lifeless, denuded alike of people, foliage and natural features...
...Corps is teeming with new ideas. It is the open intention of the Marines to move toward the ability to carry all their fighting men in helicopters. They would be supported by nuclear bombs, rockets and artillery fire so as to create atom-scourged "beachheads" up to 70 miles inland. Having landed, some of the troops would secure supply and communications lines by moving back to the real beaches through "atomic sanitized corridors." Ground Power. The U.S. Army is sure to have a role in the development of the claw. But ground-war planners have had less success than their...
Died. Alexis Thompson, 40, wealthy (an estimated $5,000,000 Inland Steel Co. fortune) sportsman and cafe socialite, former owner of the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles, onetime Olympic bobsledder; of a heart attack; in Englewood...
BELGIAN BONDS will go on sale in the U.S. market soon for the first time in 20 years. Belgium, which needs $50 million to improve the Port of Antwerp and inland waterways, will float a $30 million issue through New York's Morgan Stanley & Co. and Smith, Barney & Co., has got the rest in a loan from the World Bank...