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...convoke a special session of Peru's Congress, which has not functioned effectively since July 1947. Last week they got their answer-in Odria's budget for 1949. Its appropriation for the armed forces: 242 million soles ($16 million). For Congressmen's salaries: not a solitary sol. At week's end, Odria's junta announced that it was assuming all executive and legislative powers...
...that inasmuch as New Year's Day falls on Saturday, normally the heaviest work day of the week for overseas bureau-men, any undue celebrating the night before would automatically bring its own punishment. In Madrid, Correspondent Piero Saporiti expected to join the crowd in the Puerta del Sol (Madrid's Times Square), dodging the used electric light bulbs that Madridians store away for this occasion, whirring a wooden zambomba which gives out a deafening clack, and brandishing a bunch of grapes over his head (you eat twelve grapes as the New Year comes in, one for each...
Latest news from the psychosomatic front: many cases of trench mouth and inflammation of the gums start out as inflamed emotions. Said Research Assistant Sol J. Ewen of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center: dentists should open up a little wider, get a mouthful of psychiatry...
...House, shrewd and peppery Sam Rayburn, 66, of Texas, will replace Joe Martin as Speaker. New York's durable Sol Bloom, 78, will take over the Foreign Affairs Committee from New Jersey's Charles A. Eaton. New York's tight-fisted John Taber will relinquish the Appropriations Committee purse strings to Missouri's Clarence Cannon, 69, who looks like a professional mourner and is always willing to give a sympathetic ear to an Administration request...
What makes the picture even prettier, for Miss Webster, is that Impresario Sol Hurok is in it. He has booked the troupe on the same basis as the touring Met or a Marian Anderson recital, has guaranteed minimum gross receipts all along the way. The show will cost the playgoer 60? to $3.60, depending on the local sponsor; in some cases, admission will be free, with a school fund footing the bill...