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...survey conducted by the Selective Service that one out of six draftees state were going into the and the Reserves, Col. Pau; deputy director of the . Selective Service, yesterday. "It was our biggest source of loss," he said...
...Longfellow told the story, Hiawatha one day trustingly left the lodge unguarded only to find that Pau-Puk-Keewis, "whom the people called the Storm-Fool," had entered his home, killed his pet raven, then ransacked the place. After an arduous hunt, Hiawatha slew his treacherous enemy. Only then: Ended were his wild adventures, Ended were his tricks and gambols, Ended all his craft and cunning, Ended all his mischiefmaking...
...Like Cattle." The proud and handsome Caraja nation has dwindled in two centuries from 500,000 to 1,200, and its domain, which once stretched 870 miles from northern Mato Grosso to the sea, has shrunk to the shores of a jungle island. Of the Pau d'Arcos, some 3,000 strong at the beginning of the century, a lone survivor remains-an old woman wearing out her days as a stranger in another tribe. Many tribes, among them the Amoipiras and the Potiguaras, live only in the history books...
...More than half the 15 racing cars entered in France's Grand Prix de Pau either cracked up or broke down before they finished the long, sun-splashed climb through the streets of the little Pyrenees town. Veteran Belgian Driver Olivier Gen-debein even managed to get his foot jammed between brake pedal and accelerator on his little Emeryson speedster, shot off the road at high speed and wound up in a hay bale. With that kind of competition, Scottish Farmer Jimmy Clark, 25, who had never won a big race before, had no trouble bringing his Formula...
Death Reported. Ana Rabinsohn Pau-ker, 65, longtime Communist matriarch, who as Foreign Minister ran Red Rumania from 1947 until her downgrading to a minor job in 1952; of cancer; in Bucharest. After joining the Communists in 1921, the Bucharest-born Jewess spent 15 years in and out of Rumania and jail before going to the Soviet Union. In 1945, one year after her return to Rumania, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky visited, noted Mrs. Pauker's power over the incumbent regime, departed purring, "I feel very lighthearted...