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...used," said Dr. Myers. In Denmark, where BCG has been extensively, used, the death rate was cut in 30 years from 174 to 30 per 100,000, but in Iceland, with similar people and conditions, it has been cut in 20 years from 203 to 26 without BCG. In Rio de Janeiro, the death rate has dropped among unvaccinated adults but increased among BCG-vaccinated infants...
Editor Carlos Lacerda, boss of Rio's sprightly afternoon Tribuna da Imprensa, dearly loves a newsbeat. This week he had a good one. His Tribuna reported that Argentina's President Perón had jailed the man he hailed last March as the discoverer of a new "Argentine" way of liberating atomic energy (TIME, April...
...Rio newspaper recalled Perón's words at the time: "Politicians and newspapers of other countries lie intentionally. I never tell a lie." It also quoted Perón's assertion that the "discovery" would pave Argentina's way to world leadership and to command of a "third-force" position in world affairs...
Citizen Journalists. Today an alltime high of 31 correspondents keep TIME editors posted on news events between the Rio Grande and Cape Horn. Five are staff correspondents based in our four Latin American news bureaus. They are assisted by five "legmen," each a citizen of the country where his bureau is located. The other 21 are string correspondents. These journalists, many of whom are pictured on the map below, cable some 19,000 words of news research to us each week. Eleanor Welch, Assistant Chief of Foreign Correspondents and a veteran reporter herself, keeps in constant touch with them...
Fast travel over South America's great distances is the toughest part of the staff correspondent's job. Said Rio Bureau Chief Frank White a fortnight ago : "We often hold our story conferences in the back of our Jeepster. Everybody sleeps with a map of Brazil, plus assorted airlines timetables, on his night table." Just back from a 7,000-mile trip up the Amazon Valley, White sometimes covers points in northern Brazil that are closer to the United States than to his home in Rio...