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...Carlos Concha, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Peruvian Senate, and Dr. Homero Viteri Lafronte, onetime Ecuadorian Minister to the U.S. hastened to Washington. During the seven-hour flight from Miami to Washington on the same plane they showed no sign of recognizing each other. In the steaming jungle that neither country really wants Peruvians and Ecuadorians kept on shooting at one another...
...Negotiated at Hyde Park with Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King an agreement between the U.S. and Canada to coordinate production facilities (see p. 27). In a seven-hour session the two agreed to exchange defense materials. Canada's dollar exchange will be bolstered by the sale of machine tools, aluminum, ships (perhaps), an unspecified number of Bren machine guns to the U.S. for some $200,000,000 to $300,000,000. Canadian economy, threatened by its sale of wheat, war supplies, etc. to Great Britain for sterling-supplies Britain now gets from the U.S. on a lend...
Sundays the Rev. Eustachio Paolicelli preaches in Brooklyn. Weekdays he cleans Brooklyn's streets. Last week Preacher-Street Cleaner Paolicelli celebrated his 38th birthday in notable fashion: at Jamaica, L. I., he was consecrated a bishop in "The Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson." Features of the seven-hour ceremony were vocal selections from the Sanitation Department's glee club (in which Bishop Paolicelli sings bass), an inspirational address by Deputy Sanitation Commissioner Matthew J. Diserio...
...dams built, large factories going up, widespread industrialization, big collective-farming projects. Five-Year plans were announced. Free schools and hospitals were erected everywhere. Illiteracy was on the way to being wiped out. There was no persecution of minorities as such. A universal eight-hour and then a seven-hour day prevailed. There were free hospitalization, free workers' summer colonies...
Among other disciplines it was necessary to learn to do without sleep. This was because he lived with wealthy, sophisticated Tibetan Minister Tsarong Shapé, and was much entertained. Tsarong Shapé and his set, who lived in modern houses with radio and plumbing, liked to eat seven-hour meals, go to horse races, nine-hour plays, shoot dice, and talk about such things as amateur photography...