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Investment. In Rio de Janeiro, Paulo Quadros responded to a hospital's appeal for blood donors, fell off a streetcar next day and lost a leg, pulled through with a transfusion of his own blood...
...repugnance to mules had a foundation that was laid in 1942. That was the year the U.S. Rubber Development Corp., desperately trying to boost Amazonian rubber production for war, decided that the seringueiros (rubber workers) needed mules for jungle transportation, and bought 1,800 of them in Sao Paulo State, in southern Brazil. But moving them 3,500 miles northwest (as the mule files) turned out to be the biggest part of the problem. An ex-canned-goods salesman, abetted by a lottery-ticket salesman and a former bus driver, gave up the job after losing more than...
Landslide in Rio. In some places the Communists put up their own candidates; in others they threw their support to congenial candidates of other parties. Their most impressive successes were in Sao Paulo, Brazil's richest industrial state, where they piled up a winning majority for Communist-Progressive fusion candidate Ademar Barros; in Recife (capital of Pernambuco State), where they gained a huge majority; in Rio de Janeiro, where, in a landslide, they elected a still unreported number of councilmen. The Communists had polled about 16% of the total national vote (at least 800,000 ballots...
...areas back of the present narrow strip of coastal settlement. They hope that moving the seat of government beyond present railheads, smack into the healthful, mosquito-free heartland, might start Brazilians colonizing all the way from Belém at the mouth of the Amazon to São Paulo state in the south...
...KLAUS NETTER Sao Paulo, Brazil...