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Manoel Olimpio Meira, called "Jacare" (Alligator) after his natal village, became the modern hero of Brazil's jangadeiros, half-starved "sharecropping" fishermen, last autumn when he and three mates sailed their flimsy jangada (sailing raft) Sao Pedro on a 61-day, 1,650-mile trip to Rio de Janeiro to tell President Vargas the fishermen's troubles. From Getulio Vargas they won full union rights-and pensions. Their story (TIME, Dec. 8) so kindled Cinema Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)that he flew Jacare and his mates to Rio again, to enact their feat for his camera...
...Naval commissions have investigated the University's facilities since spring vacation and at least three contracts were drawn up before both parties were satisfied with the arrangements. Although the general outline of the plan was known throughout this period, fear of pre-natal publicity and the indefiniteness of the details prevented any earlier publication of the facts. Not until yesterday was the final contract signed, sealed, and delivered...
...more difficult to escape from than famed Devil's Island, Fernando de Noronha houses murderers and other felons from the State of Pernambuco, political prisoners from all Brazil. Between the island and Natal, on the bulge of South America, lie some 225 miles of ocean. Few prisoners ever escape, for authorities see to it that there is little wood for building boats or dugouts...
Recently four top-flight Pan Am troubleshooters, on a survey flight were forced to return to the Caribbean without going south of Natal. They were flying a Grumman amphibian which required special flight permissions, and these the Brazilian Aeronautics Ministry, which is a cumbersome body, including some Nazi sympathizers, refused to grant...
...Whether or not they are using this Frenchman, the Axis has plenty of ways to communicate ferry-bomber take-offs from Natal: a Lati radio, a Condor radio, two commercial telegraph companies...