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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Familiar Routine. Becoming Presidentelect of his Nebraska-size country (pop. 2,350,000) in last fortnight's election (TIME, Dec. 13) worked little change on Batlle Berres. He rose as usual at 6 o'clock, after six hours' sleep. At his newspaper Action, he dummied up the editorial page, writing some of it himself. Rakishly jamming on his hat, he went to lunch at a modest restaurant, where the waiters gathered to congratulate him; he stood up to shake hands with them all. In the afternoon he began reading through 6.000 congratulatory cables and telegrams...
While Hemingway was perhaps never a millionaire,*the playboy title often fitted him. Oak Park, Ill. (pop. 63,529) saw the earliest Hemingway-the versatile, outdoors-loving son of respected Dr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Hemingway. Later Oak Park's people wondered, as one of them put it, "how a boy brought up in Christian and Puritan nurture should know and write so well of the devil and the underworld." (He was born a Congregationalist, became a practicing Roman Catholic, now apparently does not go to church). The city room of the Kansas City Star saw him fresh...
Pakistan's efficient new strongman leadership tightened its control of the nation last week. Governor General Ghulam Mo hammed (who dissolved Parliament last month) proposed that West Pakistan's four provinces and ten princely states be swept aside, that there should henceforth be one unified West Pakistan (pop. 33.5 million), to set beside the single state of East Pakistan (pop. 42 million). His proposal was endorsed by the army's powerful Major General Iskander Mirza; civil servants are already drawing up the changes "that will be necessary." Premier Mohammed Ali (who retains his office by courtesy...
...Grande do Sul. Joao Fernandes de Campos Cafe Filho was the son of a low-rung civil servant in the state of Rio Grande de Norte's finance department. In those days an imaginary social-economic boundary divided the state capital of Natal (turn-of-the-century pop. 16,000) into two distinct dietary sections. On the lower ground, near the sea, lived the cangulei-ros, the poorer people who ate a cheap fish called the cangulo; on the higher ground lived the more prosperous xarias', who could afford to eat a more succulent fish called the xareu...
...visitors who arrive for the first time in the southern metropolis of Sao Paulo (pop. 2,500,000), Latin America's greatest industrial city, get a startling impression that the great Brazilian tomorrow has already reached high noon in a virtual explosion of civic energy. From downtown hotel windows they can count a dozen or more new office buildings under construction amidst what is already one of the world's most impressive arrays of skyscrapers. Rio de Janeiro (pop. 2,600,000) is undergoing an apartment-house boom only less startling than Sao Paulo's office-building...