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...Amazon and Paraná are two of the world's largest sedimentary basins-together nearly 2,000,000 sq. mi. But of potential oceans of oil, only traces have been found; last year Brazil produced only 30% of its requirements from an old field at Bahia...
...Down. According to Estrada, no similar oriental-looking objects have been found elsewhere in Central or South America. His theory is that a small group of people from across the Pacific found their way to Ecuador, perhaps were shipwrecked near Bahia and founded a colony there. Some of their imported cultural traits, such as a liking for headrests and peaked gables, persisted for a few generations before dying...
...business. He has interested himself in Ecuador's northern coastal region because of vaguely oriental objects previously found there. In 1956, after learning diggers' techniques from Archaeologists Clifford Evans and Betty Meggers of the U.S.'s Smithsonian Institution, he began concentrating on the coastal town of Bahia de Caraquez where, according to ancient legends, a people called the Caras landed from...
...seven planets. The vibrations are vital." With Camus' wife, the master was killed during World War II. Camus today will not even reveal his name, but includes an aging "master figure" in each of his films (the present one is an old Negro he came upon in Bahia...
Last month Magalhaes turned up at Rio's Laranjeiras Palace and sat down to lunch with President Kubitschek. By dessert, the President had vowed to make good on his promise to pave the highway linking Bahia with Rio, 750 miles to the south, and last week the government let 24 contracts for the $38 million job. Kubitschek also promised to find $3,500,000 to complete one of Magalhaes' cheris'ied projects: long-deferred completion of the 20,000-kw. power dam on the Rio das Contas, which would feed electricity to the southern part...