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Ambassadors at Work. Morrison-Knudsen leads them all. Last week an M-K crew was in the Brazilian jungle expanding the Cubatao hydroelectric project to give the city of São Paulo 400,000 more kilowatts of electric power. On the $20 million job, M-K men were boring a 3,500-ft. river-diversion tunnel, blasting a huge underground powerhouse from the bowels of a mountain. The air was blue with humidity; the sides of the cavern dripped water; every so often, a chunk of rock broke loose, came crashing down like a thunderbolt in a closet...
...never before been shown in the U.S., was bought by the Guggenheim's trustees on the advice of the museum's new director, James Johnson Sweeney, a knowledgeable critic and an energetic man-about-museums (he has arranged exhibitions in Venice, Paris, London and Sao Paulo, served as Director of Painting and Sculpture for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art). When Sweeney took over the Guggenheim 18 months ago, it was a cultish temple of nonobjective art. Its paintings were mainly second-rate German abstractions which looked like the products of a well-sterilized laboratory. Enclosed...
...months crowded with work and honor, Tamayo completed two huge murals in Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes, painted a monumental El Hombre for the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, and won a first prize of more than $5,000 for a roomful of paintings in Sao Paulo's biennial exhibition. He also found time to paint more than a dozen smaller pictures. Last week 17 of his new canvases went on view in Manhattan's Knoedler Gallery...
...cost 6?. After that they firmly told their hosts to tear up the leisurely itinerary that had been prepared. Instead of sightseeing or sambaing in nightclubs with gallants from the Chamber of Commerce, they flew directly to Parana's coffee-raising center, 200 miles inland from Sao Paulo. Full of questions about fertilizers, wages, harvesting methods and crop yields, they covered 150 miles of frost-burned coffee-land by motorcade and afoot. Trudging down rows of tree skeletons, Mrs. Chapman said: "This is very distressing-worse than we had imagined...
Round of Cheers. Next day, the tireless clubwomen watched coffee-loading on the wharves of Santos, poked into almost empty warehouses and listened to the bidding on the coffee exchange, where they were roundly cheered. In coffee-conscious Sao Paulo, they were a bigger hit than a gaggle of movie starlets from Italy, France and Japan just in for the Quadricentennial Film Festival...