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...fact, as many-faceted as a diamond from Diamantina, the drowsy back-land town where he was born and raised. On the polished surface, no trace remains to recall the shy, shabby small-towner who at 18 took a third-class coach to the state capital to make his way in the world. Smooth, brisk and notably well-groomed, he suggests just what he used to be-a high-fee society doctor. Young for a Brazilian President, he looks even younger, with catlike grace and glowing vigor. His smile rivals French Actor Fernandel's in expanse. He loves society...
...gradually slows down and merges with the nucleus of some unfortunate atom. There it combines with a proton or neutron, and both particles vanish, turning into 1,876 million electron volts of energy. The resulting explosion-extremely violent on the atomic scale-drives off fast-moving fragments that trace the lines of the star...
...White House correspondent, "sat on a couch in Dwight Eisenhower's office and studied Chapin's chart. After that, in a skull session which may serve him well in setting up his own administration in Brazil, he followed the chart, actually walking from office to office to trace the course that a piece of executive business would take to the President's desk...
There was, moreover, one other trace of Big Joe: a note from Bessemer, Ala. written on the back of a restaurant check. It said: "I, Nido Uwanawich, met up with Joe Uwanawich. I will pay my summonses as soon as I have money...
...tackles that old favorite of the girls: Should I be a Good-Time-with-the-Boys or a Darling-I'm-So-Glad-I-Waited lassie? Waugh's implication (that men are much too dumb to know if a girl has waited or not) is the only trace of cynicism in a book that is filled to overflowing with a sense of boneless wonder...