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...wonder Cabinet posts, came to the U.S. as ambassador in 1943, became Colombia's interim President for a year at 39. In 1947, he went to Washington to play the leading role in creating the OAS, became its first secretary-general. He wrote most of the 1947 Rio mutual defense treaty that Fidel Castro denounced a fortnight...
...piped the loudspeakers of Rio's Little Maracana sport stadium one evening last week. From overhead, a glittering crystal Sputnik twirled down, antennas spinning, lights blinking. Spotlights glared as it landed, picked out a sequin-spangled man and woman dangling from it. The couple waved, the crowd applauded, and a troupe of animal trainers, tumblers, clowns and acrobats raced into the arena to applaud back. As the Sputnik beeped back into orbit among the rafters, the famed Moscow circus cut loose with its spectacular show for the first time in the Western Hemisphere...
Turning up for work after their usual Monday-Tuesday weekend, editors, writers and researchers pushed through the revolving doors with eyes akimbo, walked across serpentine tile inlays in the lobby floor. "It looks like the walk at the edge of the beach in Rio," said Senior Editor James Keogh...
Last week the Cuban Ministry for the Recovery of Illegally Acquired Property seized the weekly newspaper Vocero Occidental in Pinar del Rio. No reason was given. The seizure brings to more than 50 the number of papers under the thumbs of the Castro regime...
...addressed his fellow Latin American Presidents as co-partners. He conspicuously sought their advice on world problems, e.g., disarmament, so that he could-go to the forthcoming summit conference "with a clear understanding of the views of our friends in this region." (Editorialized Rio's Journal do Brasil: "This is the first time that we talk to the U.S. on equal standing.") He also endorsed some of the Presidents' pet projects. Example: in Chile, he laid the groundwork for President Alessandri's plan for hemisphere disarmament by promising immediate U.S. military aid if any hemisphere nation...