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...Chile and Brazil, the Protestants include a surprisingly high proportion of educators, businessmen and government officials. Most often, however, Protestants find their converts among urban workers who may have been baptized as Catholics but never have practiced their faith. Last year, for example, Methodist Pastor Gessé Texeira de Carvalho started a mission in Petropolis, a mountaintop city 27 miles from Rio. He now has 45 converts and 90 people taking instruction. "Baroque statues and gilded altars were all right for their grandfathers," says De Carvalho, "but the Brazilian of today must find a better way to reaffirm his faith...
Signals & Flips. "A word of explanation," began Assistant Conductor Edward Murphy, as workmen lowered a basketball Scoreboard over his head. In playing the score, he explained, the opposed conductors (Murphy and De Carvalho) would choose a "tactic" or a combination of two "tactics." They would then pass their choice on to the musicians by means of hand signals, and to a scorekeeper by the flip of numbered switches on a little box. The scorekeeper used a chart prepared by the composer with the help of a computer that supposedly showed which tactic had triumphed...
Honks & Gongs. Maestro de Carvalho leaped into the lead with what sounded like honks and whistles, but Murphy soon caught up with gongs and tappings. Halfway through the sevenminute match, Murphy took a one-point lead, but then, with a flurry of weird whines from his violins, De Carvalho went ahead to stay, was declared a six-point winner...
...music? "It's junk," said one violinist. "We could have competitions between cities," glowed De Carvalho at intermission. His musicians felt otherwise. "I put my life savings into a Guarnerius violin," said First Violinist Melvin Ritter, "and I don't want to take it onstage to thump it on the back." Clarinetist Andrew Crisanti was kinder: "You have to take it in the right spirit-after all, we're in show business...
...evidence, the show business was paying off. In the two years since De Carvalho took over, season ticket sales have gone...