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...Maurice Duplessis, and Newfoundland Premier Joseph Smallwood flew into town. A cruise ship brought 275 presidents, board chairmen or top executives of six major U.S. steel companies, U.S. and Canadian banks, insurance and trust companies and mining firms. The visitors assembled on Seven Islands' rain-drenched waterfront. A button was pushed, and rumbling machinery dumped carloads of red rock into a freighter's hold. When the hold was full, the ship sailed for Philadelphia to deliver to U.S. steel mills the first iron ore from Canada's remote Ungava iron fields, as rich as and perhaps vaster...
...Sacred Button. Peyote (pronounced pay-oh-tee) is a small, carrot-shaped cactus that grows wild in the valley of the Rio Grande. Cut off and dried, its top forms a bitter-tasting "button" that, eaten or brewed as tea, is capable of strong and strange effects upon the mind. Just what the effects are has not yet been scientifically determined.* The Indians have known about peyote for centuries; Cortez' men found the Aztecs using it when they invaded Mexico. It has always been associated with religious ceremony...
Devastating Charm. Boyer as the count is like no Boyer ever seen on the Hollywood screen. Gone are all the mannerisms, the soulful eye-woggling and love-me-please pout. He is the military aristocrat to the last shoe button, going a fair piece down Swann's Way with no illusions-an intelligent, very French, clearly self-knowing performance. As the countess, Darrieux nicely achieves an odd mix of innocence, flirtiness, and neurasthenia, but cannot quite hold her own with the competition...
...hundred thousand men and women in brightly colored turbans and saris, standing in the 100° sun, cheered Prime Minister Nehru one day last week as he pressed a button and sent tons of water roaring through a new canal toward the parched deserts of India's thirsty East Punjab. Along the 238-mile, tile-lined concrete canal, devout Hindus burned camphor. Tears ran down the wrinkled cheeks of old peasants who, in past years, had seen their children and their cattle perish in drought...
Governor Thomas E. Dewey last week formally opened the first section of what will be the longest, best-planned and most remarkable toll road in America, the New York Thruway. At a banquet in Rochester, Dewey pressed a button that opened turnpike exchanges on the 115-mile stretch from West Henrietta, near Rochester, to Lowell, near Utica. For New York, the Thruway may be the most important achievement of its kind since De Witt Clinton in 1825 opened the Erie Canal and gave the state the jump on its neighbors. The aorta of commerce, the canal made the state great...