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...great week for the Brazilians. With pomp & circumstance the Rio Conference drew to a triumphant close. To visiting President Harry Truman (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a million cariocas gave a mighty civic reception. And at week's end, proud in the presence of distinguished guests, Brazil observed the 125th anniversary of national independence...
...People's Day. Delhi's thousands rejoiced. The town was gay, with orange, white and green. Bullocks' horns and horses' legs were painted in the new national colors, and silk merchants sold tri-colored saris. Triumphant light blazed everywhere. Even in the humble Bhangi (Untouchable) quarters, candles and oil' lamps flickered brightly in houses that had never before seen artificial light. The government wanted no one to be unhappy on India's Independence Day. Political prisoners, including Communists, were freed. All death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. The Government, closing all slaughterhouses, ordered...
...agitated, he became a zealot. In 1943 he published Colonel Effingham's Raid, a Book-of-the-Month novel whose harsh kidding of the Cracker Party and its dirty devices was lost on that organization's nonreading leaders. Last year Fleming's sowing reaped a triumphant harvest: the voters of Augusta kicked out the Cracker Party, and voted in a city-manager plan...
...becomes entirely plausible as a rampant neurotic. But the good old larger-than-life characters-Jaggers, Miss Havisham, and the glittering, cruel Estella-are presented with such a grandly bland air that they become believable, and unforgettable, by the force of their own peculiarity. The whole movie is a triumphant example of what can be achieved in film by tact, taste, and keen literary intelligence...
Paradoxically, the triumphant Bunnies managed to amass their 1,144 point total without a single sole championship in any of the major sports. In those fields, football was won by Kirkland, basketball by Leverett and Lowell, squash and crew by Eliot, and baseball by Eliot and Winthrop...