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...Brazilian Constitution which Vargas proclaimed in 1937 authorized him, for purposes of defense, to "dismember" Brazilian states and convert them into Federal territories (like Alaska), governed from Rio de Janeiro under special laws. Vargas' new territories, carved from five states (Para, Amazonas, Matto Grosso, Paraná, Santa Catharina), create a strip of centrally controlled buffer areas along the frontiers between Brazil and nine of its neighbors...
Grizzled, fiftyish Pedro Candioti is one of Argentina's most beloved athletes. His specialty is not futbol, polo or tennis, but endurance swimming. Last week, for the 26th time, Pedro Candioti tried to realize his life's ambition: to swim down the Paraná River to Buenos Aires...
...week's end a female compatriot of Pedro's tried a less ambitious but nonetheless staggering swim-the 42 windy miles down the Paraná from Campana to San Fernando, at the head of the Estuary. She was Mrs. Soledad Bueno de Gutierrez, 38, swimming teacher in a Buenos Aires department store. She made it-in 17 hours, 38 minutes...
...night 34 boxes of aviation munitions disappeared from an air base. Shortly the Government ordered all of its warplanes immobilized, their magnetos removed. Troops at the Paraná air base were confined to quarters for twelve hours. Soon new troops took over at Paraná and the Government's Aviation School at Córdoba. Aviation munitions were moved from airports to infantry depots and the Military College at El Palomar. Commander of Army Aviation General Angel Maria Zuloaga not only resigned but, the next day, was removed by decree. The Government announced that disaffection among many Argentine flyers...
After hundreds of Argentines took excursions across the Plata estuary to Uruguay to see The Great Dictator, it opened after all in Paraná, 410 miles up the river from Buenos Aires, in the tough, independent-minded Argentine State of Entre Rios...