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...Macapa, on the mouth ofthe Amazon, for rest and mechanical checkup for the plane...
...covers a wide range of subjects with a mixture of Gallic verve and American nerve, e.g., it recently sent a staffer on his first trip to Africa to bring back a picture story on "How to Hunt Big Game," commissioned a French explorer to write his story of an Amazon trip, "I Starved with the World's Most Primitive Tribe." The magazine's lavish color pages, planned by Art Editor Albert Gilou, sometimes achieve the lustrous clarity of a Flemish painting, are equaled by only one other publication in Europe: Switzerland's sophisticated...
...later watercolors, done after the American Revolution, Davies was obviously painting for pure delight. Often naive, he included at times vegetation and animals more at home in the Amazon (Davies also served in the tropics) than along the St. Lawrence River. But at his best, he caught the primitive pioneer settlements, magnificent waterfalls, foaming rivers, the awesome virgin forests touched with the full richness of Canadian autumn, and recorded them with a freshness and charm that extends deft draftsmanship into the realm...
...Communist world; it also mines and exports 75% of the free world's cobalt (essential for jet aircraft engines), 70% of the industrial diamonds. One third the size of the U.S., it is a hot, humid, fecund basin drained by a river system second only to the Amazon in volume. In the east lies Ruanda-Urundi, where the seven-foot Watussi live; in the south lies Katanga, the metalliferous wonderland that fronts on Rhodesia and is the site of Shinkolobwe, the world's richest uranium mine. Between is the timeless jungle (48% of the Congo is forested), with...
Brazil's inflation-harried, dollar-starved government heard good news last week from the jungle interior. Near the spot where the Madeira River flows into the Amazon, oil hunters brought in a high-grade gusher, the first oil ever found in Brazil outside the coastal state of Bahia. The oil spurted 150 feet, and made Brazilians gush just as effusively. Said Rio's Correio da Manhá: "Glad tidings! The greatest hope for Brazil's recovery...