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...greeted by an enthusiastic crowd and signs-"How, Big Chief Eisenhower." After sitting through a parade of tribal dancers, Ike began his speech: "Governor Mechem, Chairman Ahkeah . . . and I hope I may say my brethren of the Zuni, Hopis, Apaches, Papagos, Rio Grande Pueblos, Navajos, the Sioux . . ." He got a huge round of applause as he rattled off the Indian names, continued: "I am particularly sensitive to the great honor you have done me . . . asking as your guest one belonging to the profession [Army] that in years past was your enemy . . . Out of the stories that surrounded that epic campaign...
...American's southbound Stratocruiser, just off from Rio en route to Montevideo, had reached 12,000 feet. In the morning sunlight, the clouds sparkled brilliantly. One of the 28 passengers, U.S.-born Mrs. Marie Westbrook Capellaro, wife of a Roman banker, pressed her camera against a window, eagerly taking pictures. Suddenly the cabin door popped open and the plane yawed. When Mrs. Capellaro's husband turned to look at his wife, she was gone-sucked from the pressurized cabin through the open hatch and, after a fall of approximately one minute and 25 seconds, dropped without a trace...
Encouraged by Pepsi's prosperous new Latin American business, Steele last week planned to push into Brazil with plants in Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre and Rio. All of Steele's new plants may well run up his concentrate sales abroad to equal 1.4 billion bottles annually - almost half of what Pepsi sells...
...Brazilian Communists hate the most is Carlos Lacerda, hard-driving editor of Rio's Tribuna da Imprensa, who has crusaded against the Red menace in Brazil since his days as a bright young columnist. Last week Lacerda was on another anti-Red crusade. Day after day he front-paged photostated evidence-letters, government records, police reports-that Brazil's foreign ministry is infested with Communists...
...Another Rio newspaper, Correio da Manhã, also brought to light some startling information about Communism in Brazil. The information concerned Amador Cisneiros do Amaral, a government attorney serving as chief prosecutor of a batch of army officers accused of Communist activity. Cisneiros proved to be a most reluctant prosecutor. He belittled the state's own evidence, even refused to admit the authenticity of documents that prisoners themselves had identified. Last week Correio offered an explanation of Cisneiros' reluctance: he has a long history of Communist affiliation. Shortly afterward, Cisneiros' boss announced that the case had been...