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...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 with," said one actor, "provided you let him dominate you completely...
...miles for almost a month by motor launch, native dugout canoe, truck, jalopy and a variety of barely airworthy small planes, visited scores of river towns, oil and mineral exploration camps, pioneer farms, mines, missionary stations and Indian villages deep in the jungle. Once, to photograph a tribe of Mato Grosso Indians, De Carvalho and Linck hiked nine miles through thick jungle and at dusk hiked out again, preceded by a native guide armed with a flashlight and rifle. At the camp of a seismographic crew, they just missed a battle in which seven Indians were killed during a surprise...
...flurry of excited advertisements in the Brazil Herald glowed of fabulous land bargains in the wilds of the Mato Grosso plateau. Over a Rio television station, a warm-voiced announcer sold stock by posing an enticing question: "Does your money really work for you? Some of the luxuries of this world can be yours-a beach, a home, a boat, an airplane." Such were the latest come-ons of expatriate U.S. Swindlers Benjack Cage (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957) and Earl Belle (TIME, Aug. 4), and they seem to prove that good con men, like cats, land on their feet when...
Widows First. Cage set up quarters in a lavish suite at Sāo Paulo's Jaraguà Hotel, decided that all the Mato Grosso needed for a land boom was the old backslapping hard sell. He fixed his selling price at $2 to $5 an acre. What if the land is remote (and no more fertile than tracts being peddled by Mato Grosso State for 35? an acre)? One day the wilderness would bloom. Said Realtor Cage, nobly: "I'm going to work hard and pay back everybody that lost anything in Texas. You betcha...
...Spread. In 1953, when Ruschi was bat-hunting in the back-country state of Mato Grosso, he found a cave piled three feet deep with dead and dying vampires. This looked promising, so he collected sample bats and hurried them to his laboratory. From them he isolated germs that will spread from bat to bat and kill them in 120 days. "The long incubation period is good," says Dr. Ruschi. "It helps the victim spread the disease before he dies...