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...minerals (manganese, quartz, mica). Today, Brazil is the cornerstone of the U.S. policy of hemispheric defense. Brazil, which benefited greatly from U.S. wartime expenditures, looks to the U.S. in peacetime for the aid that private and public capital can give to the building of the country. Brazilians want to tap U.S. technical skill for the development of the natural resources that are spread in abundance over the world's fourth largest nation. In area, only the U.S.S.R., China and Canada are larger than Brazil...
...suspect that the societies do nothing at all, except make mysteries of themselves, behind the bronze doors and windowless walls of their New Haven "tombs." But it has never prevented Yale juniors from hoping that they too will feel a hand fall on their shoulders at the traditional tap day each spring. To be one of the 15 men elected each year to each of Yale's six societies is still the ultimate in campus recognition...
...took a seat in front of his cellos and beamed while waitresses collected orders at the crowded tables-for beer, wine and the purplish lemonade known as "Pop Punch." When the applause was insistent, he signaled for an encore from more than 400 numbers that he keeps on tap. On opening night the most popular encores were Buttons and Bows and The Surrey with the Fringe on Top; as they always do when they specially like one, the fans replied with long, loud...
...American Gas & Electric Co.), was the hard-working chief of ECA's mission to Germany's Bizonia. As a Navy captain, he had a peculiar wartime job: running strikebound plants (York Safe and Lock, some 60 oil refineries) seized by the Navy. Now he was trying to tap Bizonia's vitally needed industry. "Western Europe," he said, "is like a machine that has run way down. Part needs oiling, part replacing, part overhauling. Before this machine can achieve top efficiency again, every single piece must be functioning smoothly. Germany is the carburetor of this machine...
Last year Kaye dug into his trunk for a song he had worked on seven years ago with Lyricist Fred Wise (Misirlou) and Tunesmith Sidney Lippman (Chickery Chick). They had never been able to sell it. Growled publishers: "Sounds like an old-fashioned tap routine," or "Who wants to sing the alphabet?" His collaborators almost lost hope, but Buddy kept plugging. He persuaded M-G-M Records to record it just before the Petrillo ban; when M-G-M finally released it last December, Buddy spent $1,000 carting the record around to half a dozen cities, badgering disc jockeys...