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...high camp. At that rarefied height, the temperature, in the bright sunlight, 122° F.; twelve hours later it fell to -15°. Nevertheless, the climbers toiled on next day, up another 1,300 ft. to a cave. The following morning, as the sun rose out of the steaming Amazonian jungles far to the east, they moved...
...pictures of untamed Amazonian Indians for Rio's weekly picture magazine 0 Cruzeiro (circ. 350,000), Staff Photographer Jose Medeiros has made ten trips deep into the jungles of Central Brazil. On an expedition to the upper reaches of the Xingu River three weeks ago, it occurred to him that he might "do better than just bring back pictures." Two days later, he turned up in Rio with two large-as-life, fresh-from-the-jungle Camaiura Indian bucks...
Even by jungle standards, the Camaiura are a primitive tribe, lacking such widespread items of Amazonian culture as blow guns and fish poisons. They are among the nakedest of savages: adult women wear only a G-string, men and children go buff bare...
These vagaries are more irritating since they detract from what is essentially an inspiring production. Ruth Ford's Lady Macbeth is superb. She is not the Amazonian Lady Macbeth of brute strength and indomitable will; her strength seems to be drawn from an immense source of nervous energy. This, joined with her sensitivity and fragile beauty, makes it seem impossible that she should last as long as she does under the same strain of guilt which overcomes Macbeth. The sleep-walking scene, when the sham is gone and there is nothing left but the subconscious, is the finest moment...
Colonel Fawcett's fate swiftly became one of the celebrated mysteries of modern times. Sunday-supplement editors printed endless accounts of travelers who claimed to have seen or heard of Fawcett alive in the Amazonian wilds. Most experts felt sure that he was dead, probably murdered by the Kalapalo Indians through whose lands he had ventured in search of the original Garden of Eden. But over the years a score of international expeditions failed to find Fawcett, dead or alive. Last week the Brazilian government proudly announced that one of its Indian agents, following out the country...