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Mexico: Luis Padilla Nervo, 65, longtime diplomat and U.N. delegate, former Foreign Minister, President of the U.N. General Assembly...
...Russia-fearing Finland and the neutralist United Arab Republic will probably win seats, might cut the reliable majority to 6-5.) ¶Latin America has never been a monolithic bloc, even if the Russians do call it the U.S.'s "mechanical majority." As Mexican Delegate Luis Padilla Nervo puts it, "the Latin Americans do not follow instructions from anybody except their own governments." Compared to the Soviet bloc, which votes solid on every question, Latin America is ruggedly independent. In 1957, for example, Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti and Bolivia disagreed with the U.S. more than half the time...
Possibilities for the job: the Philippines' Carlos Romulo, Mexico's Padilla Nervo. The reward: $20,000 tax-free salary, a big house and $20,000 for expenses...
...Christmas pantomimes have not been wholly pure-i.e., perfectly silent-for a long time. Singing & dancing have been customary since 1723, spoken dialogue since 1814. The great joy of every panto player is the matchless exuberance of his audience. Last year Nervo & Knox, two fine slapstickers with 26 years in panto, so worked up their youthful audience against the Baron (Variety Artist Eddy Gray) that he could not speak his lines for the din; when Nervo yelled, "Come on, kids, let's kill the Baron," more than a hundred of them stormed on to the stage and stopped...
...Mexican delegate, Luis Padilla Nervo, wants to know if the scientists think it possible to operate under international authority and in international zones plants producing atomic fuels for both weapons and peaceful uses and to operate in individual nations under national controls secondary plants producing atomic fuel for peaceful purposes...
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