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...Unskilled and unschooled, the migrants simply disappear into Rio's hillside favelas, Caracas' ranchos, Santiago's callampas, the slums that choke every large Latin American city. In a year's time, squatters at the edge of Colombia's port city of Barranquilla turned a bean field into a shantytown of crude huts housing 2,500 people. Lima's slums are growing ten times faster than the city itself; 450,000 live in slums today, compared with 120,000 in 1957. For nearly all, the chances of ever rising out of the slums are slim...
What help he gets comes from a bespectacled Irishman, Tom Duffy, who first introduced Thomas to the high-jump bar nine years ago at Rindge Technical high school in Cambridge, Mass. "John was a little string bean," recalls Duffy. "He had decided he wanted to be a tennis player. I had to get that idea out of his head, and the only way I could do it was to take him out on the courts and lick him pretty good. Once that was done, he was ready to jump...
Over a breakfast of seaweed, bean paste soup and pickled cabbage in Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, Kennedy told Sukarno of U.S. concern that the Malaysian crisis would flare into full-scale war. Behind Bobby's soothing words was the clear implication that the U.S. might curb its $12 million aid program to the chaotic and nearly bankrupt Indonesian economy. Sukarno got the message, expressed a willingness to discuss the crisis with Malaysia's Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and with Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal, who also opposes the federation. At week's end Bobby flew...
Pucker Up & Blow. The Jug Band's anchor man is Fritz Richmond, 24, a shaggy, red-haired bean pole who plays washtub, stovepipe and jug. He is so immersed in washtub playing that once, while in the Army, he got carried away and played a Quonset hut by nailing the door shut, stringing a wire from the doorknob to the tip of a 10-ft. pole and strumming. "It made a deep, very deep sound," he says, lost in wonder at the effect. His present instrument is a $2.49 Sears, Roebuck washtub, but metal fatigue forces...
...Italian law, still weighs heavily on Sophia Loren. When asked what she wished on her gravestone, she replied simply: "Here lies Sophia Ponti." But the Neapolitan beauty is still a long way from R.I.P., and on her 29th birthday, troubles momentarily retreated. Husband Carlo presented her with a lima-bean-sized emerald ring, and Sophia purred: "It's great to be a woman...