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...American World Airways' El Presidente winged northward across the Brazilian jungles, one of its four engines ran rough. The steward woke the 38 passengers, explaining that their Stratocruiser would have to land for brief repairs at Belem, near the mouth...
...Builder. Intercontinental made deals to manage three South American hotels (worth $6.2 million) at Belem, Santiago and Barranquilla, and raised the capital to start three more (worth $17.5 million) abuilding at Montevideo, Caracas and Bogota. It began negotiations to build 17 others stretching from Japan to Saudi Arabia. Last week I.H.C. added two more links to its projected $100 million chain...
...went off [reminiscing] about an anti-patriotic act of mine as far back as 1945, when I had gone shooting ducks with [British] General Oxley at Belem, on the Danube . . . [saying] that he had been there personally, shadowing us in the guise of a local huntsman...
...island-hopped through the turquoise Caribbean were met at San Juan by a waiter with trays of Daiquiris. At Trinidad, they heard the calypso singers and the throbbing steel bands, and found everything up-to-date: the airport was an awkward 17 miles from Port of Spain. At musty Belem, they were met by the weird sounds & sights of the jungle and, in the air-conditioned bar of Pan Am's guest house, by a more startling sight-the statue of a single-breasted Amazon...
...green sweep of the Amazon Valley, and 81 more in the Rio Doce Valley far to the south. SESP has built and staffed three fine hospitals and Brazil's best nursing school. It has also built 42 health posts, 14,000 privies, and a dike at Belem that has reclaimed 5,000 acres of land from the sea. Over a two-year period in the Amazon, SESP doctors have made 297,000 medical examinations, 143,000 laboratory examinations, administered 156,000 treatments...