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...problem is that the technocrats have not yet brought the full force of their planning to bear on impoverished regions such as the Northeast. But even in expanding areas, poverty seems built into the master plan. Each flat in the new blocks of expensive marble-hailed apartments mushrooming in Rio and Sào Paulo has its minuscule cubicle for a maid who is likely to earn far less than the posted minimum wage of $65 a month. Nor is the incompetence of the old Brazil a thing of the past: a significant aspect of the Transamazonian Highway...
...most grueling sporting event-the first round-the-world sailing race. Since they tacked out from Portsmouth, England, last September, the competitors have rounded the Cape of Good Hope, crossed the storm-tossed Indian Ocean to Australia, and completed the dreary, dangerous, downhill passage round Cape Horn to reach Rio de Janeiro. This week they will weigh anchor to begin the final leg to Portsmouth, where the winner* will collect no cash-just a modest silver trophy, some medals and the satisfaction of winning the 27,000-mile endurance test sponsored by Whitbread & Company, Ltd., a British brewery...
...does not play favorites. Tabarly, a navy commander, was barely halfway to Capetown when his titanium mainmast collapsed. By radio, Tabarly ordered a new spar. Under jury rig, he headed for Rio, 1,200 miles away, to pick it up. The 82-ft. mast, fabricated in Switzerland, had to be cut in two to fit into a French military jet. Meanwhile Blyth, a former paratroop sergeant, was learning that $350,000 worth of sleek boat does not necessarily go fast when manned by a crew of paratroopers with little sailing experience...
With no boat claiming a monopoly on trouble, Sayula II recovered from her dunking in the Indian Ocean well enough to take the lead going into Rio. She is a production-line Swan-65, skippered by Mexican Millionaire Ramon Carlin. Adventure, a British navy cutter that has changed crew in every port of call to give more sailors "adventure training," is a distant second...
Died. William Fife Knowland, 65, former Republican floor leader in the U.S. Senate; by his own hand (gunshot); near Monte Rio, Calif. Knowland was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1945 by Family Friend Governor Earl Warren after the death of Hiram W. Johnson. As majority floor leader from 1953 to 1955 and minority leader through 1958, Knowland advocated a hard line on Asian Communism and opposed the entry of Red China into the U.N. A stubborn, thunder-voiced politician, he decided to improve his presidential chances by running for the California governorship in 1958. After losing to Pat Brown...