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...embassy in Rio protested open attacks against the U.S. by Brazilians in high office and anti-U.S., pro-Communist block prejudice in trade. Ambassador Lincoln Gordon brought to Washington what is described as a "devastating" report on Brazil's muddled affairs. At his press conference a fortnight ago, President Kennedy himself publicly cautioned Brazil about its political and economic instability. In sending Brother Bobby to Brazil, Kennedy made sure that the message would get through loud and clear...
...come anywhere near making ends meet, the country needs massive help from outside-and of course expects to get it from the U.S. Fortnight ago, as collateral for emergency loans, Brazil shipped its last $80 million worth of gold to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. International oil suppliers have agreed to wait till next year to be paid for this year's imports. Such measures should enable Brazil to live on a hand-to-mouth basis until early 1963. After that, it presumably depends on another bailout by the U.S. Last week President Kennedy made it clear...
...head the new government, Hussein, fortnight ago, renamed as Premier able Wasfi Tal, 42, who was summoned home last February from his post as Jordan's Ambassador to Baghdad and ordered to breathe new life into a wheezing administration. A onetime British army captain who takes Washington's New Frontier as his model, Tal installed a young, twelve-man Cabinet that included eleven university graduates, immediately fired 150 corrupt or inefficient senior officials in a housecleaning that swept out his own uncle...
...Fortnight ago, in a Houston hospital, Walker, 64, was told that the "fish hook" that burned in his throat was cancer. Facing surgery to remove his larynx, and chilled by the shadows he saw, he made his choice. He phoned an aged and loyal pal in New York. "Get my obituary ready." he said. Next morning, his wife Ruth, returning from an errand, saw him on the porch of the cabin where he kept his books and his shotgun. Would he like a lift to the main house? "No," said Stanley Walker. "You come back a little later." When...
...cowpokes who dueled fortnight ago in San Angelo are old and bitter rivals. The Texas favorite, Jim Bob Altizer, 30, was the Rodeo Cowboys Association champion in 1959, began roping chickens and dogs when he was still a toddler, graduated to goats at seven. "I've had a rope in my hands ever since I can remember," says Altizer, and his rope has won him a 38,000-acre ranch stocked with 600 Hereford cows, 6,000 sheep, 4,500 angora goats...