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Excitement mounted in Rio. Though Getulio was not expected to arrive till early this week, bandwagon-jumping politicos staged one banquet of homage after another. Cardinal Dom Jaime Camara announced a special Mass commemorating Vargas' election, although the church press had backed the Brigadeiro during the campaign. The staid Jockey Club said it would revive its annual "Prix Getulio Vargas," which was dropped from the racing calendar in 1946. At week's end a new samba was sweeping to the top of the pre-Carnival popularity list...
When Teacher Rockwell, a radioman first class in the Naval Reserve, received orders to report for active duty, his superintendent tried to get him deferred till June. The Navy said no. Thereupon, crossing their fingers and wishing hard, Teacher Rockwell's pupils wrote to the Navy themselves...
...surprised because when I was a boy, absence of a schoolteacher was a welcome event, and I was pleased to see that today's young people . . . regret the loss of a good teacher." The admiral was so pleased that he was granting Teacher Rockwell a deferment till June...
...days later, from morning till night, the retreating U.N. forces rolled back down the two main roads through Seoul-down the same roads on which outnumbered South Korean troops and a handful of U.S. advisers had fled six months before...
Camptown split into two groups, the conservatives who set their alarms for 6:50 and had a good breakfast before they set out to catch the 8:04 commuter train, and the mad-dashers who lolled till after 7. But by the time they reached the station, dressed in the standard uniform of gabardine topcoat and mouse-grey hat, they were pretty indistinguishable. For these were young men planning to get ahead in the world, ex-G.I.s to a man, whose stay at Camptown, they assured one another, was "only temporary...