Word: bigger
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Many Brazilians have become confirmed air commuters, but then they have no choice. Their nation is bigger than the continental U.S., and its important cities are scattered hundreds and thousands of miles apart. To make matters even more mobile, Brazil has not one capital but three: the political capital of Brasilia, the cultural and communications capital of Rio, and the industrial capital of São Paulo (see map). Few business deals or political maneuvers can be arranged without touching all three bases...
...Slowest Horse. Marine collectors must content themselves with fewer-and smaller-fish in bigger tanks. Tiny fresh-water tropicals, accustomed to crowded living in a brackish backwater pool, obviously need far less tank space than the denizens of vast coral reefs that are flushed by two tides every...
Recognizing the need for a bigger note, the government has just issued the first batch of 5,000-cruzejro bills - a relief to U.S. visitors, who find their pockets stuffed with string-tied wads of 500-and 1,000-cruzeiro bills. One effect of the new bills was to send the sinking cruzeiro into another downspin, from 850 per dollar to more than 900. " The new 5,000-cruzeiro notes," said a harried Rio exchange-currency broker last week, "are already obsolete." He is so right. Before the Brazilian Congress is a new proposal to authorize 10,000-cruzeiro bills...
...Girls, Run. But in gaining preeminence, the graduate schools overwhelmed the liberal arts college. To balance the university, Harnwell provides a bigger ration of liberal arts for all undergraduates, notably those at Wharton. The liberal arts college has finally acquired an honors program and its own faculty, calling on such top scholars as Anthropologist Loren Eiseley. Also strong: American civilization, Oriental studies, history. By 1970, Penn hopes to start a house plan like those at Yale and Harvard...
...practitioner of the hold-on-for-dear-life, catapult-like technique of vaulting with fiber glass, Pennel used a long, 154-ft. approach "for speed," a high grip on the pole "for a bigger bend." He is aiming now for a 17-ft. vault and a gold medal in the 1964 Olympics. "I don't want to sound overconfident," he says, "but I think 17 ft. is within my reach." One little difficulty may interfere: after last week's meet Pennel noticed a crack in his borrowed pole. "I'm not going to worry," he shrugs...