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...Bustamante cold-shouldered an Aprista delegation that called to offer him support. Instead, after a scuffle a few days later in Lima's market place, his police arrested 15 men, four of them La Tribuna staffers, and charged them with trying to start a food riot. Intent on his middle way, Bustamante wanted to make clear that he would be just as tough with Apristas as he had been with right-wing plotters...
...last week in a Manhattan hotel suite, Haya made his decision. Said he, after 73 days in the U.S.: "I must return and lead my people. This is the most fateful and dangerous hour of my life." Two days later, Haya landed in Lima and set off one of the biggest Aprista demonstrations in the party's history...
Neutron Country. All winter, Dr. John Simpson of the University of Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies flew back & forth between the northern U.S. and Lima, Peru, in a Navy Bag packed with special instruments. He was hunting neutrons, those subtle particles that slip into atomic nuclei and often disrupt them with bangs of radiation. He found plenty of neutrons. The higher he flew the more he found. They were not invaders from space, his studies told him, but were spattered out of atmospheric nuclei struck by cosmic rays...
...three weeks, President Thomas Braniff expects to start flying his new routes from Houston, Tex. to Lima, Peru; eventually he will fly to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. The routes cut straight across the juicy domains once monopolized by Pan American Airways and Pan American-Grace (Panagra flies the West Coast, Pan Am the East). Both lines opposed Braniff's entry on the ground that the territory could not support a third U.S. flag line. But President Truman, taking the matter out of CAB's hands, gave Braniff the routes...
...conference was called to straighten out kinks in the Inter-American system, to formalize acts taken at five special conferences*held in the war years since the last plenary meeting at Lima in 1938. Major item in the agenda: a new Organic Pact of the Americas, which would give the Pan American Union more power, place political and military matters under its wing...