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EVERY Wednesday morning, a motorcyclist in green uniform speeds from Rio's Catete Palace to Galeão Airport to meet the plane that brings TIME'S Latin American edition from our Havana printers. At the airport, customs officers break open a packet of the magazines, then, before clearing any other cargo, they give a copy of TIME to the palace messenger. He rushes it to President Juscelino Kubitschek's secretary, João Luis, who delivers it immediately to the President, even if he has to interrupt a conference...
...pink blossoms on the Japanese cherry trees last week, a shabby, middle-aged woman attracted no attention when she entered the line of sightseers winding through the White House one morning. Tucked under her arm was a folded newspaper; in the fold were three matchboxes, a crumpled packet of cellophane and paper napkins...
Except when advertising for a cook. George Washington shunned contact with the press until he was ready to quit the presidency. Then he called in the editor of the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser and asked him to run the text of the Farewell Address. Not until Woodrow Wilson did a President establish the formal, regular White House press conference. Last week, just 43 years after Wilson launched it. President Eisenhower gave the conference his blessing as "a wonderful institution...
Personalizing Peter's Pence. In the lead story, Dawn, Father Udovic finds a packet of trouble in the collection plate. It is an envelope addressed to "The Pope," marked "Personal," gathered up in Father Udovic's campaign "to personalize Peter's Pence" by having the bishop, who is going to Rome, "present the proceeds to the Holy Father personally." For days the innocuous-looking envelope ticks like a time bomb in the bishop's "In" box. Father Udovic finally sends for the letter writer, a laconic little woman who grudgingly reveals that the envelope contains...
...cast on the whole budget. He had to learn to jump at a growl from the members of the House Appropriations Committee. Only last week, while his head was swimming with the billions of the new budget, old John Taber, ranking Republican on the committee, confronted him with a packet of individually wrapped cotter pins and washers and demanded an explanation for such flagrant waste...