Word: jangada
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...Welcomed Eleanor Roosevelt back from a 24-day, 14,000 mile jaunt through the Caribbean. Arriving home, tanned and longing for a shampoo, Mrs. Roosevelt brought a souvenir for the President's library: a model jangada (native one-sail, one-paddle boat) made by a Recife fisherman. Said she to the press: "Easter? Oh, it's next week, isn't it? I haven't any new clothes and won't have...
Manoel Olimpio Meira, called "Jacare" (Alligator) after his natal village, became the modern hero of Brazil's jangadeiros, half-starved "sharecropping" fishermen, last autumn when he and three mates sailed their flimsy jangada (sailing raft) Sao Pedro on a 61-day, 1,650-mile trip to Rio de Janeiro to tell President Vargas the fishermen's troubles. From Getulio Vargas they won full union rights-and pensions. Their story (TIME, Dec. 8) so kindled Cinema Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)that he flew Jacare and his mates to Rio again, to enact their feat for his camera...
Last fortnight, the luck ran out. During the filming of a shark-octopus battle, Jacare was spilled from the tricky jangada. Though he managed to swim away, he was caught in a treacherous current and, like his fisher-father before him, swallowed...
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