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...story the "Second Song of Bernadete." President Café Filho made a personal visit to promise the government's "moral and material support." And Marta Rocha, runner-up in the 1954 Miss Universe contest and honored symbol of Brazilian beauty, went to see the dark-haired girl, wept, and next day broadcast an appeal for funds to build the "Hospital of Bernadete" for care of cancer victims...
...Women wept, and children stared around them wide-eyed. Last week at the first services police allowed in Buenos Aires' burned-out churches. Argentine Roman Catholics saw the full extent of the damage. Inside blackened shells they found looted poor boxes, shattered statues and altars, toppled altar rails. They knelt to pray in mounds of ashes...
...airport. Above a nearby hangar streamed a banner proclaiming: "Congratulations, we're proud of you, Jack." Below the banner hung a 20-ft. cardboard putter. Out stepped a lanky, lean, tired man in blue slacks and white sweater. A thousand welcomers cheered. Unashamedly, the weary man wept. Jack Fleck, 32, a week after leaving Davenport as one of the nation's most obscure golf pros, was home as the city's No. 1 citizen -rocketed from nowhere to glory as the darkest horse ever to win the U.S. Open golf championship (TIME, June 27). Mopping his tears...
...fortnight later, new symptoms began to show. The patients' dark skins grew darker in patches and rose up in leathery plaques. Sometimes the skin peeled away, leaving white or pink tissue. Deeper burns wept and formed crusts. When burns were on the scalp (70% of all individuals), the hair came out by the handful...
...bewilderment, searching for the voice out of the loudspeakers. "Turn him around." someone howled. Avery struggled for his bearings, turned back and pleaded: "I can't hear that at all. What's the purpose?" (Avery's daughter, Mrs. Rogers Follansbee, a spectator at the meeting, wept...