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...Wednesday, with Rio's streets almost deserted except for strings of colored lights, colored plastic pillars and a few exhausted stragglers, the highly vital statistics told only part of the story. Ambulance calls: 1,827. Street fights: 90. Arrests: 422. Complexes eased and frustrations forgotten: Quern sabe? What the statistics did not show was the thousands of times the police simply looked the other way, following an unwritten law governing the free spirits of carnival. "Americans have money," rasped one exhausted tourist when it was all over, "but Brazilians have soul...
...story told of Alemán in Havana: on the afternoon of Oct. 10, 1948, he and some henchmen drove four Ministery of Education trucks into the Treasury building. All climbed out carrying suitcases. "What are you going to do, rob the Treasury?" joshed a guard. "Quién sabe?" replied baby-faced Joseé Alemán. Forthwith, his men scooped pesos, francs, escudos, lire, rubles, pounds sterling and about $19 million in U.S. currency into the suitcases...
...Buenos Aires' broad, stately Avenida Alvear last week, municipal workers in faded blue denim wearily hammered together a new temporary grandstand. "What is this for?" asked a reporter. "The July 9 Independence celebration? The arrival of Chile's President?" "Quién sabe?" answered a carpenter. "Perhaps for that. Perhaps for the return of the Sñora from her voyage. Ah, sñor, you have read of this voyage? A miracle, is it not so? Surely, all the world must know...
...Mariana?quien sabe?" (Today is today. Tomorrow?who knows...