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Rated in the forefront of French art ever since she won first prize in sculpture at São Paulo's 1951 Bienal, Sculptress Richier, 52, does not see beauty as the world usually views it. Says she: "I am more attracted by the trunk of a dead tree than by an apple tree in full bloom." Along with such dissimilar sculptors as Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti and Brit ain's Henry Moore, Germaine Richier takes her stand as a Pygmalion-in-reverse. Rather than working inert sculptor's materials to the polished, lifelike perfection of idealized...
...proud Mexican and fullblood Zapotec Indian, such success is sweet balm for long years of struggle in Manhattan and of official ostracism in his own city. Outside Mexico Tamayo has in recent years won a hatful of international awards, including a $5,000 first prize at Sāo Paulo's 1953 biennial, a second in last year's Carnegie International (but not the Barcelona Biennial grand prize, which Tamayo turned down, later explaining: "I am not on good terms with Mr. Franco"). At home Tamayo, outspokenly antiCommunist, has been up against an iron phalanx of pro-Marxist...
...Drawing Prize ($400) : to Brazil's Aldemir Martins, 34, for his six clean-lined drawings, which included birds and human figures that won his prize in this year's São Paulo Bíenal...
...reaction to Kubitschek's speech was a general agreement that his frankness had succeeded where flowery rhetoric would have failed. But the opposition soon served notice that it was in no mood for a moratorium on criticism. Editorialized the anti-Kubitschek daily O Estado de São Paulo: "The people still hope for better days. It would be good if those better days come soon, before despair has won the souls of all. Patience has its limits-and hope is not eternal...
Test Pilot. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, finally gratifying his long-felt urge to fly, ex-Aircraft Mechanic Olimpio Martines Neto, 27, hopped in a twin-engine DC-3 at the city airport, kept it aloft for three minutes, crash-landed in a crowded suburb, walked from the wreck with nothing more serious than a rip in the seat of his pants...