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Committee Four: Trusteeship (South Africa's request for the annexation of South-West Africa and Russia's demand for a hand in all trusteeship agreements). Chairman: Uruguay's Roberto MacEachen...
...each voter left the polls he dipped the little finger of his right hand into a green fluid. That was to keep him from voting twice. The creation of one Dr. Roberto Finol of Maracaibo, the green dye was supposed to be proof against soap, acid or anything for at least a couple of days. Venezuelans read the inscription on the bottle-". . . to guarantee universal suffrage"-and submitted willingly...
...bait of outsize, tax-free Mexican salaries were Latins who did not look too bad under the pitiful lights of wartime U.S. ball, but would spend a lot of their time on the bench in 1946. Best known: the Giants' Napoleon Reyes and Danny Gardella, the Athletics' Roberto Estalella, the White Sox' Alejandro Carrasquel, the Dodgers' Luis Olmo...
...Pounder. The outstanding contrabassoonist in the U.S. is a short, dignified Neapolitan named Roberto Sensale, of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Sensale first aspired to the cello. But when he applied for a scholarship at the Royal Conservatory of Naples, the only opening was a course in bassoon playing. In 1922 he joined the Philharmonic as a bassoonist. Fifteen years later, at the death of the Philharmonic's veteran contrabassoonist, a stately Anglo-German named William Conrad, Sensale moved down an octave to take his place...
Died. Ramon S. (for nothing) Castillo, 71, Argentina's Conservative President from 1940 until ousted by the June 1943 revolution; after long illness; in Buenos Aires. Slight, sardonic Castillo ("The Fox") became Acting President when failing eye sight forced the late, liberal Roberto Ortiz' retirement. The Fox instituted Argentina's policy of "prudent neutrality." At his wake last week was a yard-high floral wreath inscribed: "From the Japanese Embassy...