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...owner forced him to watch while plantation hands took turns raping the Indian's wife, then had the man emasculated. After a visit to Brazil in 1900, Lord Bryce, famed British Ambassador to the U.S., wrote: "The methods employed in the collection of rubber surpass in horror anything hitherto reported to the civilized world during the last century. Flogging, torturing, burning and starving to death have been constantly and ruthlessly employed." Along with the white man came his diseases: in the native village of Meinaco, 177 Indians died after being exposed to a white man with an ordinary cold...
...most beloved Brazilians in history, to pacify 150,000 Indians through a network of 100 outposts, today linked by radio and airplane. But the continuing development of Brazil's interior has only aggravated the problem, as the advancing armies of road builders and jungle clearers encounter hitherto isolated tribes. And Rondon's successors-he died in 1958 at 92-are divided as to the problem's solution. Colonel Tasso Villar de Aquino, 49, who now heads the Indian Protection Service, thinks that the Indian must be integrated into the white man's society. In this cause...
...with the fatal word. Danny Kaye is referred to as an "old (48) Mittyslicker." Admiral Arleigh Burke, retiring while still capable of exercising his wit, is dubbed the "old king of the cans (59)." And Prince Philip, of all people, turns up as an "old Naval person"-a title hitherto reserved for one whose undeniable claims upon it were immortalized by his correspondence with an American president...
...energy from the inquiries presently under way. It seems to us it is more important to reach conclusions regarding presently known problems than it is to delay those conclusions in the search for new problems." Nonetheless. Wall Street waited in uncomfortable fascination to see what new worms-or hitherto undescribed old ones-the SEC will find in its barrel of apples...
...Scapegoat. The Coyne affair showered political sparks all over Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Liberal Opposition Leader Lester Pearson called for an emergency debate in the House of Commons. Hitherto opposed to Coyne's high interest rates and his stubborn insistence that Canadians are living beyond their means, Pearson suddenly came to the governor's defense. He challenged Finance Minister Donald Fleming to prove that Coyne had blocked a single government program. "We will not support the government in any attempt to use the governor as a scapegoat for their own faults," he cried...