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Brazil's relaxing dictator, Getulio Vargas, recognized Soviet Russia last week. For years, he had used a souped-up version of the Red Bogey to double-rivet his dictatorship; now, with the San Francisco Conference only three weeks away, Russia was a power which could not be ignored and should no longer be antagonized...
Last fortnight in Philadelphia, Lieut. Commander Billig showed the International College of Surgeons a startling new technique. He now does the operation bloodlessly, with an air-driven rivet gun with a specially rounded head. The gun is pressed against the skin and used to knead the nerves right through the flesh...
...Vibration from a rivet gun does nothing to the muscles and nerves of a woman's hand. The vibration is imperceptible. "Rivet arm is due simply to prolonged use of the same group of muscles in a tense position...
...Like a rivet through the hand...
...would make of France Resistant another quasi-Ally, like Italy, complete with AMG and ex-Fascist mayors converted from Fascism to Democracy since June 6. When the French punish such Vichyites as they can catch, the charge is made that the "Gaullists" are purging the "opposition" and intend to rivet a Gaullist dictatorship on France. If other Allied governments punished their traitors so, they would be praised for bringing "war criminals" to book...