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Brazilians have a joke they like to tell on their popular Dictator-President Getulio Vargas. It concerns Sao Pedro Church, still standing in the middle of Rio de Janeiro's newly constructed, three-mile Getulio Vargas Avenue...
President Vargas knows the joke and chuckles over it. Last week, on the sixth anniversary of his "New State," he chuckled again. São Pedro Church will be moved, stone by stone, to be rebuilt on a new site. President Vargas' regime is also moving-toward a postwar new deal...
Serapia did the trick: after reading her sad story, the children clamored to be vaccinated. Dr. Glusker, a gleam in his eye, went on to write a whole series of stories called Fabulas para Pedro (Fables for Pedro), a little boy who rarely passes up a chance to plug Dr. Glusker's hospital...
...Teatro Colon's ticket office was swamped. Rumor galloped across the capital, cantered into the chambers of President Pedro Ramirez's reactionary nationalist Cabinet. Promptly the Government canceled the Academy's meeting. People on the street nodded knowingly, as if to say, "They feared to let him speak." Suddenly on the newsstands appeared red-&-black booklets containing the Bishop's unspoken address. Crowds snapped them...
...first time last week the authoritarian Argentine Government of President Pedro Ramirez faced some active opposition. It came from the group which has traditionally spearheaded popular discontent: the university students...