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General Dwight D. Eisenhower flew north from Brazil trailing clouds of exaltation and exhaustion. In Rio the fancy hails & farewells (variously involving champagne toasts, oratory, autographs, roast pig and avocado ice cream) had reached their fanciest in the Constituent Assembly. There, while fellow legislators cheered, Dr. Octavio Mangabeira polished off an oratorical tribute by kissing Ike's hand. Next day one legislator dared to deplore the gesture, promptly threw the assembly into a shocked uproar. Finally, the members took a vote, approved Dr. Mangabeira's "exceptional eloquence" unanimously-even including the objector...
...night aboard the LSM with two assistants to set the controls so that Helen could be detonated by radio signals. At dawn Holloway's team (and three other men who had been overlooked aboard a target ship) were taken off. Bikini was deserted save for its guinea-pig ships with their white mice-and Helen...
...IRON to STEEL. In May, the House approved the Government's motion to transfer "appropriate sections" to public ownership. After further study, a bill will be offered, probably recommending nationalization of iron ore, coke ovens unaffected by the coal bill, pig iron and most steel ingot manufacture, heavy rolling mills and some finishing plants. Just where the line can or will be drawn is a question. Meantime, the Government will appoint a Steel Control Board to oversee the industry and insure raw materials supply, and may carry out modernization schemes taken from the industry's own plan...
...industry, the basic price barometer for durable goods, wanted to give no aid to the return of OPA. But bituminous coal prices had gone up an average of 40½? a ton a fortnight ago as part of the coal strike settlement. Ore prices edged up. So did pig iron. In Birmingham, two plants boosted prices $3 a ton. Scrap dealers were tightly hanging on to their scrap for the expected big boost and an acute shortage was in the making. The pattern of price increases among suppliers was plain; Pittsburgh gossiped that certain types of steel would soon rise...
...pig was sacrificed in vain, and rumors of assassination were still whispered in Bangkok's dance halls, where the girls did their turns in deepest mourning. With heavy innuendo a Chinese-language newspaper suggested that Dictator Premier Pridhi had found Ananda's love for the U.S. was as dangerous as the U.S. guns Ananda collected. "Ananda fell victim of an American bullet because he played too much and too carelessly with an American gun," it said...