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...Boca del Rio air force base, 40 miles west of Caracas, two officers tried to induce the rest to rebel. Failing, one fled and the other surrendered...
...Allan Shivers became a millionaire-by marriage. At a yachting party at Port Arthur in 1935, the young state senator had met pretty Marialice Shary, adopted daughter and only child of John Shary, pioneer real-estate promoter in the lower Rio Grande Valley. They were married on his 30th birthday. When John Shary died in 1945, Shivers became general manager of the mammoth John H. Shary Enterprises, which include vast citrus fruit groves, nurseries and canneries, farms, ranches, real estate, irrigation and oil-development companies, and a weekly newspaper (the Mission, Texas Times...
TIME, they discovered, is often mealtime fare. In Guayaquil, Ecuador, Stephens walked into a hotel dining room for lunch and found about 20 people seated-four of them reading the new issue of TIME. At Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Hotel, Alberse saw one family group chattering at the dinner table, except for the father, who was reading TIME. At another table, two men shared one copy, discussing it story by story...
...command, "Suck in your gut!" Dr. Gordon told the International Congress of Chest Diseases in Rio de Janeiro, may make a chubby draftee look more soldierly, but it may also damage his health. Rigid military posture prevents a man from using his lungs properly. And faulty breathing can cause discomfort over the heart, upset digestion, bring on insomnia and depression. A moderate paunch. Dr. Gordon said, might better be left to its own devices. Military or not, "the important asset of the firm, rounded abdomen is its capacity to support the diaphragm within the effective range of expiration and inspiration...
...pioneer highway. Aragarças (pop. 2,000) has new houses for road workers, a school for 350 children, a 70-bed hospital, sawmill, machine shop and brick factory. Chavantina (pop. 300), a cluster of brick huts, lies even deeper in the Mato Grosso, on the banks of the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths) and near the hunting grounds of the fierce Chavante Indians...