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...neatness and feminity and the emphasis on belts, accessories of all kinds are getting attention. The all-purpose leather pocketbook is being made in a variety of shapes and sizes, a boon to the little girl who looks as if she's carrying her laundry when she sports an Amazon-sized satchel bag. The favorite all-purpose gloves are still string-knit, with the British product out in front...
...metropolis of Sáo Paulo, 1,700 miles to the south. Flying over five emergency airfields that foundation men have opened along the way with their machetes. Brazilian air force planes next week will start the first scheduled air line service from Rio directly to Manaus on the Amazon...
...Brazil holds a third of the world's known deposits of manganese. Three years ago, Bethlehem Steel surveyed the manganese-rich Amapá territory near the Amazon's mouth, drew up plans for a 140-mile railroad and a dock, arranged to seek a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, and hoped to produce $50 million worth of manganese a year. To date, Brazil's nationalists have refused to give the go-ahead signal. At the Urucum manganese mine near Corumbá, on the Bolivian border (which could produce an estimated 500,000 tons annually, earn $20 million...
...lovely, graceful young creature. Another lot said I was gawky, hoydenish, gaunt, like something escaped from a tomb." In The Warrior's Husband, she was fired and rehired before the show reached Broadway. The play was a hit and so was Kate. As Antiope, an Amazon queen, Kate came hurtling down a ramp, lugging a prop deer; she wrestled with Actor Colin Keith-Johnston; she made prodigious leaps across stage; she wore a short tunic that showed her long and lovely legs. She caught Hollywood...
Broken Records. After the first day's events, the Russian smiles were broader than ever. In the first track & field final, Nina Romaschkova, a blonde Russian Amazon, stepped up and heaved the discus 168 ft. 8½ in., an Olympic record. Minutes later, Czechoslovakia's loose-jointed Emil Zatopek, who runs as if fighting off a seizure of St. Vitus' dance, dashed through the tape to win the 10,000-meter run final in 29 min. 17 sec., smashing his own 1948 Olympic record...