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Dignitaries from all over called at 41 Mount Auburn Street yesterday to pay their respects to The Bird as it was turning a shade greener in the first drizzle to tickle its pin-feathers in many a moon...
After a nasty winter (the daytime temperature dropped as low as 70°), Rio had had a hot spell. Most of the city has had only a trickle of drinking water for the last two months. The ocean is bluer and greener; the sky is red at sundown; the crowds are more amorous along Copacabana beach; the open-air streetcars are slower than ever. Smells, bugs and skin diseases have multiplied. So has griping...
...husband thought hard. Several times in recent months he had been at the point of chucking his Government job. He knew that a man of his ability and experience could do much better in private business; a lot of his friends had certainly found greener pastures - at three or four times the salaries they had worked for in Washington...
...Army has already banned the fable about the golden ox who sought greener pastures (he is really seeking a Greater East Asia), and bellicose sports like judo and kendo (fencing with wooden swords). It has also canceled history, geography and ethics courses, because the texts were deeply Shinto-stained. The educators recommended a new kind of civics training-emphasizing "heroes of civil life," and stressing that "politics is an honor, not a disgrace." Teachers would be given security to think, speak and act freely...
...bowing out now. Some put it down to increasing exchange difficulties, the threat of China's new and retroactive company law (TIME, Nov. 26). Others thought the reputed $3 million sale price reason enough. Best explanation probably came from Hunt himself: somewhere he saw bigger fields and greener lands...