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...KENNEDY will cruise between 75 and 150 miles off the coast, and only the pilots will get to see the country. For the rest of the crew. Vietnam is just another port, with $56 extra a month as hazardous duty pay and stops on the way in Rio de Janiero and Tokyo, where the buys on cameras and women and dope and stereo equipment are really fantastic. And all of that is very good for forgetting about war and even, for awhile, about the Navy...
Governor Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara (Rio de Janiero), a bitter enemy of Goulart who backed the coup, insists this is not enough. He wants the Congress purged of its "pro-Communist elements," namely the Labor Party congressmen. If he and his allies gain ascendancy as the new government takes shape--it must select a new President within thirty days--Brazil will have a period of repressive anti-leftism which could set off, in turn, a bloody and popular leftist revolution...
...oarsmen lined the shores, cheering as the sculling Crimeds, unpracticed since they retired the Janiero Cup on the Tagus last year, clocked the astonishing time of 4:22.3 over the measured mile. As one veteran, himself once known as "the Jim Thorpe of rowing"--exclaimed, "These youngsters have shown out here today that skill and integrity still have a place in collegiate athletics...
Since then, Raisz has taught at Clark University, the University of Virginia, and in Rio de Janiero ("I couldn't speak Portuguese--only Spanish--but we got along fine."). This spring he will go to the University of Florda to teach cartography and to work on a state atlas. Soon he intends to do a landform map of Mexico, as well...
...rapidly rusting links with South America are an example of how even the staunchest of friendships can die of neglect. Ever since the Rio de Janiero pact of 1947, American foreign policy strategists have been too engrossed in Europe and Asia to bother with the continent beneath them. As a result, a half-dozen anti-American rulers have moved into the erstwhile Good Neighborhood, and an active hate-America campaign is under...