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...Porter school, Joao shared a bench with three other Natal boys. One of them is now a federal Senator, another the president of an insurance company, the third, Manuel Leopoldino, is a streetcar motorman in Rio. A fortnight ago, Leopoldino, wearing his navy blue motor-man's uniform, went to visit the President at Catete Palace. Cafe Filho recognized him at once, embraced him warmly. "Can I help you in any way, Manuel?" he asked. "No thanks, Joao," said the motorman. "I just wanted to see you. I like my job. It's steady work. Another five years...
...swinging-bell ringer," as it is called, will take a few months at most to install, the "Harvard Alumni Bulletin" reports. The device will be operated by a motor in the Memorial Church steeple and a mechanical brain in the basement, known as a "program clock," which tells the mechanism when to ring...
Italy, land of chronic deficits, is having its best year since World War II. Industrial production is 83% above prewar: city folk have new movie houses and coffee bars; 1,000,000 Italians are whizzing about on flashy little motor scooters. But there still remain, in a population of 47 million, 2,000,000 unemployed and another 2,000,000 underemployed. In the bleak south, says an Italian government report, almost one-third of the population lives in "extreme poverty." The report cites these statistics...
...MOTORS, INC., which has been having trouble with its truck business, will not be sold to Hearsemaker Henney Motor under the deal originally signed last April (TIME, April 12). Henney has turned the deal over to Detroit's Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp., which will buy Reo, continue to operate and expand it as a truck builder...
...sports-car boom has spawned dozens of kits. Doepke has put out a 50-part set that assembles into a realistic scale model of the MG; Ideal has a Chevrolet Corvette model kit for $4. For more ambitious builders, Revell has motorized its popular "Big Mo" battleship kit ($4.95) with a ready-assembled electric motor. William L. Gilbert Clock Corp. has an 18-piece set ($5.95) that can be made into an electric clock in a short time...