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Colombia's President Laureano Gómez buried his head in a glistening sand pile of rhetoric. Said he to his people at the end of his first year in office: the state of the nation is an almost unblemished "panorama of felicity." His administration has contained the cost of living, encouraged foreign capital, sent forces to fight in Korea. "The people's happiness would be perfect, their progress would have increased indescribably . . . if there had not existed disorder which perturbed the picture...
Died. Dr. Napoleao Laureano, 36, Brazilian surgeon and cancer expert, who spent his dying days in dramatizing his country's need for better clinics to detect and fight cancer (TIME, March 19); of cancer of the lymphatic tissues; in Rio de Janeiro...
...first time in 127 years, Colombian troops marched off last week to fight on foreign soil.* At a field Mass under the colonnade of the national Capitol in Bogotá, President Laureano Gomez presented battle colors to the Batalión Colombia, a 1,082-man combat team of volunteers for the war in Korea. Colombia is the 15th nation to send ground troops to Korea, the first Latin American country to join in the fighting...
...give the patient another few weeks," said Dr. Napoleao Laureano impersonally, "a month or so at the very most." The young (36) Brazilian surgeon spoke with plenty of authority. He had spent more than two years in an intensive study of the disease in question. Moreover, he knew the patient well. It was Dr. Laureano himself...
...were other things that called the doctor back home: his four-year-old daughter, a townful of patients and friends -many of whom had chipped in to send him to New York for treatment and consultation-and the work he had begun. Wnen his own case showed itself Dr Laureano was in the process of setting up a clinic for the diagnosis and detection of cancer. All of these things were on his mind at the airport. Said he: "You see how very important work is, especially work you want to finish. You cherish friendships more than ever. You recognize...