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...Country. World's largest republic: 3,286,000 square miles, mostly jungle; 50 million people, mostly illiterate. Rich undeveloped resources (iron, manganese, timber, probably Amazonian oil). Proverbial "land of tomorrow-only tomorrow never comes." Dynamic exception: industrial Sāo Paulo, one of the world's great and fastest-growing cities...
From thatch-roofed Amazonian villages to dusty cattle towns on the Argentine border, the rasping blare of loudspeakers drowned out other sounds in Brazil last week. Sao Paulo's skyscrapers shook to political singing commercials. Sandwichmen stalked the streets on stilts scattering handbills. Placards adorned nearly every lamppost in the land. Office seekers barnstormed the backlands in chartered planes; at least two lost their lives trying to fly in & out of bush-country airfields...
...gloom was of the pleasantly unreal sort that makes Poe's horror stories entertaining. As might have been expected, there was an atomic-bomb picture-an explosion in a surrealist stew cooked up by Mrs. Annabel Berry of Dallas. The fanciest fantasy in the show was a Captive Amazonian Albino, painted by M. Lewis Croissant, a Missouri engineer...
...latter part of November. (French diplomatic sources spotted it at the resort of Galyateto, in the Matra mountains.) "Titoism" was spreading. One of the most exciting rumors current in Europe was that there might soon be a major addition to the list of dissidents: Rumania's Amazonian Ana Pauker, announced the Rome radio, was not at the meeting and was reported to be in difficulties with Moscow...
...Indian king, El Dorado, a man so fabulously rich that he daily powdered himself from head to foot with gold dust. Legend also held that the land of El Dorado lay close to Angayza and that the mountain, which rises where the spurs of the eastern Andes reach the Amazonian jungle, was solid gold. In 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro, brother of Peru's conqueror, led several thousand men on a fruitless hunt for El Dorado...