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Died. Dr. Pedro Leão Velloso, 60, Brazil's Foreign Minister (1944-46) and chief of the Brazilian delegation to the U.N. Security Council and General Assembly, longtime friend of the U.S. and its Good Neighbor policy; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Pedro and friends were not much of a success in Argentina's capital. Pedro, one of the characters in a strange brand of ultra-free verse, was characterized in rambling lines such as these: "Pedro rose slowly . . . gathered once more about him his tree of duration: moments," achievements, events...
...Pedro is a hero to a small group of Argentine workmen who call themselves the Madis. Pedro's sponsors are sculptors, painters and poets in their spare time and they think they have built up an art form, built about a brand-new philosophy. Say they...
...Nuisances. Whatever the differences of the Big Three, says Nicolson, their peacemaking would have been easier if the major powers alone were involved. Inevitable "nuisances,and . . . eccentrics" were present at the Congress of Vienna. Prussian Delegate Prince Hardenburg was stone-deaf. Spanish Delegate Don Pedro Gomez Labrador spent his time mimicking French Delegate Talleyrand. Thirty-two minor German royalties attended-and brought their wives, mistresses and secretaries of state...
Said the Argentine official: "Impossible. All children born in Argentina must be named for saints. Here is the list." It included Francisco, Domingo, Lorenzo, Pedro, MarÍa, Jesúus, Guillermo, etc., but no Glen or Franklin...