Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Brazil's magnetic, dyspeptic Oswaldo Aranha breathed easier and ate better. After scrutinizing 50 X-ray plates, specialists had found no trace of the ailment which has been troubling the former Ambassador to Washington. Aranha got the news in the nick of time. This week he is taking on a strenuous job: Brazilian delegate to the U.N. Security Council. During March, he will be the council's president...
...usually signs himself Doctor-Governor-General-Pilot) had been no administrative paragon. Examples: the road he built for President Avila Camacho's 1946 visit had washed away with the first rains; Oaxaca's streets were in terrible shape; enemies charged that tax revenues had vanished without trace. Last week Sánchez' police shot and killed five demonstrators at Etla, just outside Oaxaca. Aleman acted swiftly, sent his Minister of Interior to investigate. Sanchez resigned. In six other states, governors who were having their troubles shivered in their cavalry boots...
Sabotage & Silly Reasons. The normal atmosphere, however, was grudging cooperation and hardly a trace of good will. U.S. planes which came down behind Soviet lines in Europe were in many cases simply taken over by the Red Air Force, without a by-your-leave. Permission to set up radar stations in Soviet territory to guide Allied bombers over Eastern Germany was curtly refused ("the silly reason . . . that they would have caused interference to Red Army radio communications"). U.S. shuttle-bombing bases in the Ukraine were established only after months of painful negotiation, and then, says General Deane, "the [Soviet] General...
Efforts to locate Fred Husband, the author of the hobo plan, were at first unsuccessful due to the fact that Planner Husband is himself a tramp. The Vagrancy Committee tried to trace him with the help of the newspapers. Last week he was discovered in a fish & chips shop...
...went there in 1940, a gloomy Jewish refugee from Vichyfranee. He has taught composition to college girls in the mornings, composed in privacy during the afternoons. In none of his American scores (including an opera called Bolivar, the symphony, five concertos and some chamber music) is there much trace of U.S. influence ("My only influences are French and I remain true to them").* He is now hard at work on a Third Symphony, commissioned by the French National Radio, which he will conduct next October in Paris. What his music says most now is that France's exiled composer...