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...house, Orson Bean runs Ford a close second in the evening's whoopstakes. Bean moves as if he were being ejected from a toaster, and his voice box is some sort of faulty dishwasher. He and Ford pair off with the unpredictable felicity of vodka and to mato juice, and in Act III they tie on a mutual bender that makes that overdone theatrical filler, the drunk scene, seem like a creative inspiration in mischief...
...Like Cattle." The proud and handsome Caraja nation has dwindled in two centuries from 500,000 to 1,200, and its domain, which once stretched 870 miles from northern Mato Grosso to the sea, has shrunk to the shores of a jungle island. Of the Pau d'Arcos, some 3,000 strong at the beginning of the century, a lone survivor remains-an old woman wearing out her days as a stranger in another tribe. Many tribes, among them the Amoipiras and the Potiguaras, live only in the history books...
...Less Human? Others, such as Orlando Villasboas. hold that the Indian mist be allowed to follow his own culture. Appointed director this month of he Mato Grosso Indian Reserve, an area he size of France in which dwell 38,000 Indians, Villasboas is convinced that the reservation approach is the only answer. 'The national park must be made to work," he says. "In Africa they guard animals that way. Are we less human here, that we can't look after our own Indians...
...Youth Already Old." When Quadros says, "I am no plutocrat," he means it. He was born and raised a Roman Catholic in the tiny Mato Grosso town of Campo Grande on what was then the woolly fringe of Brazil's wild western frontier. His home was a rented room over a barbershop, where his mother, Leonor da Silva Quadros, the daughter of a small-time immigrant Argentine cattleman, tried to keep house, and where his pharmacist father, Gabriel, made life miserable for them both. Gabriel, says one of Quadros' close friends, "was abnormal-a real villain with...
...first, the machine kissed him off as "the mad Lincoln from Mato Grosso." But soon he had everybody so mad that one politico rushed up and punched him in the mouth while he was speaking against a giveaway bill. Amid the uproar, the speaker ordered the galleries cleared. "No! No!" shouted Quadros, blood streaming from his lips. "Let the people stay! Let them watch!" By 1950, firmly established as the little citizen at war with graft, a Chaplin with a cause, Quadros won the most votes of all 900 candidates for the state assembly...