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...from your review of Lost Trails, Lost-Cities [TIME, May 25] that the famous Colonel P. H. Fawcett, in common with nearly all other explorers of Amazonas and Mato Grosso, is not above grossly exaggerating the size of the Brazilian anaconda. Stories of sucurīs 40 to 50 ft. long are common in Brazil, but they always turn out to be third hand, and neither the snake nor the actual person who saw it can be located! Some years ago, R. L. Ditmars, curator of reptiles at the Bronx Zoo and one of the world's foremost experts...
...which have to be made up through chores like leaf-raking) for misbehavior. The boys must get their Latin conjugations straight, and are encouraged to play a creditable game of football. Such a regime, thinks Brazil's Millionaire Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand, is just what is needed by Brazilian students, for the most part gay youths more given to sambas than study. "Chatô's" proposal: Brazil must have three institutions like Groton,* which he calls "the Rolls-Royce of schools...
...inequality of the sexes. When Maria's lawyer (a woman) cited such examples of U.S. stateswomen as Health, Education & Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby and Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, one judge replied: "The capacity and intelligence of Mrs. Luce do not apply to the case of a Brazilian woman." In the end, the judges denied Maria Sandra's appeal. But friends in Parliament were trying to push through bills to admit women to the foreign service. The Foreign Office recommended to President Getulio Vargas that the ban against women be dropped, and allowed Maria Sandra to study...
...Solutions. Together, Breech and HF II performed radical surgery. They shucked off all Old Henry Ford's peripheral enterprises, such as his Brazilian rubber plantations, his money-losing deal to make Harry Ferguson's tractors,* his experimental farms. They had another big problem: the inheritance taxes on the $208 million estates of Henry and Edsel. Luckily, Old Henry himself left $28 million in cash, and the family got the rest by loans from the company and sales of property. They kept control in the family by keeping the 172,645 shares of voting stock (now held in equal...
...Into the presidency of Hercules Powder Co. went Albert E. Forster, 52, succeeding Charles A. Higgins, 65, who remains board chairman. A Stanford University engineering graduate, Forster joined Hercules in 1925, left it for four Depression years to try his hand at a Brazilian engineering job. Back at Hercules again, he helped run an explosives plant, switched to sales and service, became a director in 1940, a vice president two years...