Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smack in the midst of the first sessions, Eva Perón will show up in Rio. For her there will be more parties-at the presidential palace, at the town hall, at the Foreign Office. And would Argentina's President Perón join his wife in Rio? Firmly the Brazilians said no. "He wouldn't be fool enough to try to steal some of Truman's thunder...
Prestes asked the astonished presiding officer, white-haired Senator Fernando de Melo Viana, for permission to speak. He talked long enough to fill 16 newspaper rolumns. He denied rumors that he was conspiring against the Government with former President Getulio Vargas, and he praised Dictator Perón's variety of democracy in Argentina, where the Communist Party is legal...
...bathyscaphe is now about completed in Belgium. Cast as two steel hemispheres (see cut), it is 6½ feet in outside diameter. The walls are 3½ inches thick at their thinnest point. The professor thinks that they will withstand nearly 6,000 pounds of pressure per square inch-the pressure he expects to find more than 12,000 feet below the surface...
...oppositionist La Prensa and La Nación had imported over the last nine years. (By law, newsprint for "cultural publications" is duty-free.) In Bogotá, Colombia, El Tiempo picked up the dispatch and ran a thundering editorial calling on the press of the hemisphere to lay Juan Perón's press-badgering before the Rio Conference...
...Last week's shipment of TIME'S Latin American edition was held up by the customs office in Buenos Aires, apparently in a delayed reaction to the recent cover story on Señora Per...