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...motherland. Met at dockside by figurehead President Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes and Strongman Oliveira Salazar, Café Filho began his state visit by riding through downtown Lisbon in an open car, along flag-decorated streets jammed with smiling, cheering people. Torrents of confetti in the Brazilian national colors cascaded downward, green from one side of the street, yellow from the other. The pace of the welcome never let up. Before boarding a plane for home last week, Café Filho whirled through a hectic round of receptions, state dinners and sightseeing...
...solid foundation of security under every American home and family . . . without piecemeal experimenting with dangerous medicines on guinea-pig industries." Said he: "Overall prosperity is the first determinant of the level and stability of employment. No private industry plan can long maintain high employment in the face of a downward business trend . . . I, for one, am highly impatient with the reactionary thinking of some union leaders . . . who are generally wedded to the mean and miserly concept of a mature economy that's going nowhere-in short, the advocates of guaranteed annual stagnation. I am just as impatient with...
...improbably, the eggs do touch, then the owners go into Phase 2 of the competition. This is identical to egg picking, another old Easter custom. In egg picking (or butting) one competitor holds his egg point up, protecting all but the tip with his fingers. His rival taps downward with the point of the other egg. WThen one cracks, the contest is resumed with the large end of the egg. The one whose egg is cracked on both point and butt surrenders his egg. If the point of A's egg and the butt...
...press found out all about the under-the-table deal, reported it in screaming headlines to a scandalized nation. Capable Finance Minister Eugenio Gudin indignantly resigned, and the Minister of Transport and Public Works followed him out. Gudin's departure sent inflation-battered Brazil's cruzeiro sliding downward...
...futuristic-looking machine uses a simple new method of propulsion: the ducted air fan. Two enclosed counterrotating propellers under the platform (to keep the platform from spinning) suck air down through holes in the circular fuselage, providing downward thrust, thus lifting the plane. All the pilot has to do in steering is lean in the desired direction. Still very much an experiment, the light, easy-to-operate Flying Carpet may serve the armed forces as a courier aircraft, scout and air ambulance...