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Indians in the Bolivian Andes are laying in stores of fireworks. Chilean belles are worrying about their ball dresses. For in Latin America, as in all Catholic countries, the days before Lent are carnival time...
...Corso" singing, pelting each other with confetti. Monday the "Ranches" take over the town, small clubs of marchers who skimp for months for their costumes, compete heatedly in dancing, playing, singing. Tuesday night winds up with a contest of mammoth floodlit floats. Wednesday, the first day of Lent, is a half-holiday conceded to the slack-jawed weariness of the city...
Remount's breeding plan* was designed not so much to increase U. S. horse population (fallen from 20,000,000 in 1920 to 10,000,000 in 1940) as to improve the breed. Army stallions are lent to farmers, ranchers, breeders who have proper equipment and agree not to allow the promiscuity of pasture breeding. These agents of Remount charge mare owners $10 a foal: $5 at the time of service, $5 when the mare delivers the colt. Some agents, such as C. C. Townsend near San Angelo (who has five Government stallions) accept payment in chickens, eggs...
...home. They went shopping for U. S. clothes and cars, mobbed Chapel Hill's three leading undergraduate "juke joints"-Aggie's, Harry's, The Pines. Most popular class was one in Basic English (850 words), taught by Harvard's Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, who was lent to North Carolina especially for the occasion. Although the visitors learned rapidly, the campus had some chuckles. At the movies, a South American asked his date whether she had yet been afflicted with "the constipation" (flu). Another visitor, invited to a freshman party, told his colleagues that...
...chest provided by Congress, President Pierson had lent almost $232,000,000 to Latin America. How much of this the Export-Import would see again was problematical. That U. S. manufacturers would benefit was certain. For Pierson had tied a string to most of the latest loans; with few exceptions, they provide that the money is to be spent in the U. S. Last week the exceptions began to cause trouble...