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Despite Peking's attempts to minimize the disaster, China's worst floods in a century have drowned hundreds, made tens of thousands homeless, and turned an area the size of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi into a quagmire of disaster where millions soon might starve (TIME, Aug...
...Only When Dead." The shock that finally blew the lid off was last month's sensational attempt on the life of Rio's famed crusading Editor Carlos Lacerda (TIME Aug. 16 et seq.). The three gunmen who ambushed him only managed to shoot Lacerda in the foot; but they killed an air force major who accompanied him. In blazing editorials Lacerda charged that members of President Vargas' bodyguard had done the job at the order of Vargas' son Luthero. The air force demanded that Vargas must go. Vargas refused. But last week the army, final arbiter...
...America, has been the goal of navigators since Explorer Henry Hudson perished trying to find it in 1611. Norway's famed Roald Amundsen made a trip across in the 47-ton yacht Gjöa in 1905; the 80-ton Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch (TIME, Aug. 2), commanded by Mountie Superintendent Henry A. Larsen, in 1942 became the first vessel to make the passage from west to east. But both Amundsen and Larsen sailed through Prince of Wales Strait, detouring around the broader, more direct but more northerly western exit: fog-shrouded, ice-choked McClure Strait...
Apparently not frightened by his divorce (cost: $5,500,000) from "Bobo" Rockefeller (TIME, Aug. 16), resilient Oil Heir Winthrop Rockefeller seemed to have a marrying eye firmly fixed on a member of one of the most-divorced families in the nation. Visiting with her two children at Winrock Farm, Rockefeller's sprawling stockbreeding barony near Little Rock, Ark., was Jeanette Edris, 36, a tall, cool ex-debutante from Seattle, previously married to a pro football star, a lawyer and a broker. Jeanette's father is a logger's son named Bill Edris, 61, a four-times...
...began signing her name to a stack of documents. Mrs. Mary Moody Northen, 62, was formally taking over as head of the $400 million empire left by her father, W. L. Moody Jr., who died at 89 as one of the ten richest men in the U.S. (TIME, Aug...