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...press at his disposal, Guimaràes was not even given radio or TV time. In the city of Campo Grande, the government-owned electric company cut off the power just when a meeting of Guimaràes' supporters was about to begin. In Niteroi, a city near Rio de Janeiro, perplexed bystanders watched a small band of demonstrators parade through the streets carrying placards calling for an end to censorship and a return to democracy. The marchers were later told that no further demonstrations would be permitted...
That Man From Rio...
...foreign journalists in Santiago, Eisendrath had a unique story to tell but almost no way to tell it. Rio Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch, having hurried from Brazil to Buenos Aires to be closer to events, tried to phone Eisendrath for two days with no luck. "My principal worry," Rauch said, "was that the extraordinarily tight control imposed on communications by the military junta might keep TIME'S exclusive too exclusive." Adding to that worry were the controls imposed on telephone conversations: "Calls have been limited to three minutes, and are a particularly exquisite form of torture: the three minutes...
BACK IN THE Forties one of the most popular and successful creations in the film world was the "road" movie. In these films Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour thrilled movie audiences with reel after reel of celluloid adventures and misadventures. Such cinematic tidbits as The Road to Rio and The Road to Hong Kong, along with a raft of "roads" to other exotic and far-away places, saturated the movie market with innocent and plotless travelogues...
...Airport. The control tower at Orly alerted all rescue units and prepared for an emergency landing by the crippled craft. The alert was in vain. Only a minute and a half before its scheduled landing, the Brazilian Varig Airlines 707, which had flown from Sāo Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, crash-landed in an onion field 2½ miles from the airport...