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...this is, of course, only a start. Decades will be needed to make real headway against the Amazon's problems of poverty, illiteracy and disease. But a new outlook has come to the great river basin, and with it a new optimism. "You're going to see a lot of big changes around here," says American Bishop James Ryan, who is stationed in Santarém. "If they can do this much in two years, think what they...
...BRAZIL Volunteers will work in the specialty in hospitals in the Amazon, doing preventive, curative medicine and will work in health educations of the community. They will work under the State Secetariats of Health in Para, Marashao and Acre...
...PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD, by Peter Matthiessen. An educated North American Indian, who for years has fought a losing fight with the white man's values, goes native again among the South American Indians, and in the green womb of the Amazon finds a spiritual rebirth...
...paleolithic paradise there lives the old serpent of self-knowledge, and in the end it hurls this modern Adam out of his paradise and into the dark night of the soul. For weeks, for months, he drifts alone and probably insane down a mighty river that is sometimes the Amazon and sometimes the River of Life. Then one day he looks into a forest pool and sees a face: "A face bare with privation but the wide eyes were clear, and behind the face the clouds of heaven rolled majestically across the world." A blaze of sunlight sparkles...
...offer an addendum to your story on the Amazon medical mission of the Peruvian gun boat Loreto [Sept. 17]. For more than a year Project HOPE has been cooperating in this Government program through the services of two American nurses, Barbara Schwenk and Betty Carlson. Like the Loreto, our ship is not exactly "the pride and joy of anyone's navy." The Cayetana Heridia is a 50-ft. converted boat, not handsome, but a joy to hundreds of thousands in the jungles of the Amazon in Loreto state. Miss Carlson lives aboard the craft under less than adequate conditions...