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Some northern California fishermen have already gone south to San Pedro, where the catch last season was bigger than usual. Many more were prompted to follow by reports this week from San Pedro, where the first day's catch was the second highest on record. But the canners of northern California, with some $60,000,000 tied up in factory equipment, are much worse off. A few have turned to vegetable canning. But most of them are just waiting despondently for an end to nature's perverse magic...
Wonderful Time. In all its 125 free years, Brazil had never celebrated an Independence Day like this one. Brazilians looked back to the day in 1822 when young Dom Pedro, the Portuguese Emperor's son, spurned the imperial decrees from Lisbon, and uttered the words "Independence or Death" that had made Brazil a free nation. The U.S. had stepped forward as the first country to recognize Brazil as a sovereign nation. After Dom Pedro and his son had come (in 1889) the Republic...
Chicken & Cake. Last week, this monotony dissolved in a round of official parties. Brazil's Foreign Minister, Conference Chairman Raúl Fernandes, gave a dinner and a buffet extravaganza for 1,000 in the Quitandinha's Dom Pedro I room. Guests had chicken, lobster, 20 kinds of cake, 168 bottles of Scotch, and watched Brazilian women curtsy to Dom Pedro III, pretender to Brazil's non-existent throne (the party's cost: $5,000). This week, with party after party set for the Truman visit, delegates' wives would have no more time for bridge...
...Manhattan, 128 white-uniformed Venezuelan naval cadets marched from the transport Cabana to the statue of Bolívar in Central Park. They heard Dr. Pedro de Alba, Mexican Ambassador to Chile and former assistant director of the Pan American Union, declare that Bolívar's spirit now lives in the 55-nation Assembly of the United Nations. It was July 24, the 164th birthday of the man for whom a country and a dozen towns* have been named...
...title to California's oil-rich marginal sea lands, tempered victory with mercy. The Department of Justice said that it will permit oil companies now operating offshore to continue drilling, and it waived any governmental claim to certain municipally owned areas in San Francisco, San Diego and San Pedro Bays. This was to "reassure other coastal states whose problems are comparable to those in California...