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Spanish-born Dr. Marcelino Pascua, WHO's top statistician, had hoped that his report would point a statistical reason for the increase. Other authorities would have been glad to see the question of cancer and cigarette smoking raised to the level of an international debate. But in all Dr. Pascua's mountains of statistics there simply were not enough facts to prove anything positive, because various countries have such widely differing standards of diagnosis and reporting...
...Judge Marcelino Romany, a solemn, bald, big-nosed little (5 ft. 1 in.) man who had no intention at all of being funny. Romany is known at home as a stern judge and a man of enormous dignity and great political courage. Until last week he was chiefly famous for throwing Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell's cabinet in jail for contempt during a court action...
...Marcelino Soule, Gaucho of the pampas, travel is no problem. All you do is decide where you want to go, saddle your horse and go. Time and distance are trifles. Five years ago Marcelino rode for 3 years, 3 months, 17 days-from Buenos Aires to New York and Los Angeles-returned home with the urge for travel stronger than ever within...
Last week, dressed in his Gaucho garb, with his trusty maté pot strapped under the belly of his trusty horse Bolivar, Marcelino again set forth from Buenos Aires, with a string of eight horses and one bell mare. From Recife in Brazil Marcelino planned to ship over to Lisbon, thence to ride through Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Lithuania to Moscow's Red Square. He would leave a good Argentine horse with the Chief of State of each nation he passed through, saving the bell mare for Prime Minister Churchill on his way back...
What about the war? Marcelino could not see that it made any difference. But Brazil did not think this was quite the time for such a trip. The Argentine Foreign Office thought likewise. Police caught up with Marcelino a short way out of Buenos Aires, took him back...