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Central Brazil is a vast green wedge of almost unexplored land. Seventeenth-century Portuguese explorers staggered out of its jungles bringing tales of a great lost City of Gold in a Garden of Eden. Plunging into the trackless Mato Grosso (Thick Forest), such 20th century big-game hunters as Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander ("Tiger Man") Siemel encountered jaguars hardly smaller than the fiercest tigers of Bengal. Nine years ago, out to win the 116,000 square miles of this wild Brazilian west. President Getulio Vargas set up the government-financed Central Brazil Foundation and ordered: "Conquer the wilderness. Colonize...
Deep in the Mato Grosso jungles, beyond the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths), live 15,000 Chavante Indians, members of the fiercest Indian tribe in all Brazil. For decades Brazil's Indian Protective Service agents have sought to tame and civilize the warlike Chavantes under their uniquely Brazilian motto of "pacification through love." Though the agents never used arms, even in self-defense, the ferocious Chavantes rebuffed them. One agent who dared to cross the River of Deaths was left dead under a pile of 1,000 war clubs...
Dutra was born 64 years ago this week in the frontier town of Cuiabá in cattle-raising Mato Grosso. He describes his father as "a small businessman and later a public functionary-but always poor." Young Eurico joined the army at 16 and wangled an appointment to its Preparatory School of Tactics at Porto Alegre. After graduation, he moved on to Rio's Escóla Militar, only to be expelled seven months later for his part in a student rebellion against compulsory smallpox vaccination. A government amnesty let him return. Two years after graduation...
...remained for Paul Sack '48 to defeat the commercialism in the Valentine field. Sack, simple and primitive at heart, will present his would-be mato with a 200-pound granite tombstone with the words "To my Valentine, Paul" engraved...
...crooked art dealer (well played by Steven Geray) try to blackmail her. Her efforts to keep the truth from her husband bring on other complications and the whole business becomes a court-and-headline scandal. Battling their way through the excess plot like machete-swinging explorers of the Mato Grosso, Mr. Scott and Miss Sheridan express the emotions that might be expected of them; acidulous Eve Arden and earnest Divorce Lawyer Lew Ayres finally persuade them to give their marriage another...