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...Arnulfo Arias, M.D. '25, prominent suspect in connection with last Sunday's assassination of Panamanian President Jose Antonio Remon, is the second Harvard graduate to have attempted a Central American revolution by violence. Pedro Albizu y Campos '16, Puerto Rican Nationalist, was an organizer of the shootings in the House of Representatives last March...
...government would remain in steaming Rio during this year's hot season (mid-December through mid-March) instead of moving to the 26-mile-distant city of Petropolis, up in the cool mountains, as Brazilian chiefs of state have done since the days of Emperor (1822-31) Pedro I. "This government has no time for a vacation," Café Filho explained...
...hero of the film--if it has a hero--is a little street urchin, Pedro, whose fault is to ally himself with an equally miserable delinquent, Jaibo, who becomes his personal devil. "Born but to die, and living but to err," Pedro is a picture of the frustrated potentiality which is typical of the characters in the movie. When he wants to become a "good boy," his mother throws him out into the street; when he stops Jaibo from beating a friend over the head, the friend is already dead. When he gets a job, Jaibo causes him to lose...
While the children face frustration at every turn, the role of the adults is characterized by the words "too late." The murdered boy's father, a bumbling buffoon in an alcoholic fog, repents the ill treatment he has given his son only after the son has been murdered. Pedro's heartless mother, once repented, passes unknowingly by the mule on which her son's body is being carried away to the garbage heap...
...with big, even distinguished, names. Lieut. General (ret.) George Stratemeyer, Korean war Air Force commander, is chairman of the national organization. Among the vice chairmen are General (ret.) James A. Van Fleet; Admiral (ret.) William H. Standley, former Chief of Naval Operations and Ambassador to Russia; Lieut. General (ret.) Pedro A. del Valle, commander of the 1st Marine Division at Okinawa; and Charles Edison, former governor of New Jersey...