Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immaculate attention. A strapping figure in the uniform of an Argentine general, and a tired little man in a dark civilian suit advanced toward each other. At midstream the two men snipped a ceremonial tape, then embraced. Thus, last week, after many postponements, Argentina's President Juan Perón and Brazil's President Caspar Eurico Dutra inaugurated the Augustin Justo bridge that links their countries...
...border, both parties did their best. Perón poured drinks for the first Brazilian President to visit his country since Getulio Vargas went to B.A. in 1935. Latin oratory was spilled. When the two Presidents yanked a string to unveil a commemorative plaque, up flew 1,500 Brazilian pigeons painted in the two countries' national colors. For Eva Duarte de Perón, Dutra had a whopping aquamarine brooch encrusted with diamonds...
Time for Talk. Afterwards, the two presidents crossed the river into Brazilian Uruguayana. At an old-fashioned residence of a Brazilian colonel, they withdrew with five top advisers for 2¼ hours' talk. Reporters who peeked around a curtain saw a cozy semicircle. Perón dominated the talk. Dutra, quiet by nature, weary and weighed down with Communist troubles at home (TIME, May 26), did little but listen. Besides, he still had to go 75 miles to Quarahy, for a second border meeting the next day with Uruguay's President Tomás Berreta...
...years gave away $3,230,452,079.19 in cash or goods to nine allies (most of it to Great Britain). It all totted up to just under $2,000 for every man, woman & child in the Dominion. Equivalent U.S. costs: $339,000,000,000, or just under $2,400 per capita...
...Equality under segregated system is a legal fiction and a judicial myth," replied Attorney Marshall. Dean Charles Thompson of Howard University testified that Texas last year spent $2.01 per capita for white higher education, only 44? for Negoes. The University of Chicago's Anthropologist Robert Redfield testified that Negroes and whites do not differ significantly in intellectual ability...