Word: manaus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pioneering work fresh in his mind, Williams flew to Manaus, Brazil, last month to fulfill a longstanding six-week commitment to serve as senior scientist aboard the Alpha Helix, a sophisticated research vessel operated by California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From Manaus, Williams headed the Alpha Helix upstream for the expedition's shore camp at the confluence of the Rio Negro and the Rio Branco. The Negro, at high-water level during this time of year, "looked like Chesapeake Bay," says Williams. Along the shore, trees and plants were steeped in 30 ft. of the river...
...milk and malagueta pepper and resounds to the throaty, metal-stringed strum of the African berimbau. To the north, once-sleepy Belem has turned into a throbbing mainstream of the Amazon's economic life, thanks to the highway linking it to Brasilia. In the remote Amazon city of Manaus, Brazil's fabled old turn-of-the-century rubber capital, life moves almost as languidly as the deep black waters of the nearby Rio Negro...
...ambitious jute traders in hustling Santarém has set up a factory that makes sacks from raw jute; it now employs 800 people. Hotels are going up almost as fast. This month a new 16 story hotel opens in Belém, the first major hotel in decades. Manaus also recently opened one-eight stories high and completely air-conditioned...
...company survived a minor revolution by malcontents in the Brazilian air force (which paralyzed air travel for days), soaked up all the electricity in the Manaus area and virtually blacked out the city for three weeks, provoked citizens' wrath when Camus hired a nightclub and filled it up with prostitutes, the only extras he could find who were willing to work all night. Camus carried luggage, dug ditches, designed and built nearly every set but the Amazon delta and the Mato Grosso, applied makeup, shifted props, arranged lights, hammered nails, served food. "He's very easy to work...