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...Jules Piccus, professor of Romance languages at the University of Massachusetts, paid a few cents for a tattered and yellowed scrapbook that once belonged to Wilberforce Eames, a turn-of-the-century American bibliographer. Piccus discovered that the old scrapbook contained a letter written by Netto in 1874. The Rio museum director included not only his translation of the Phoenician text but also a tracing of the original copy he had received from the plantation owner...
...also fulfills emotional needs and helps women get rid of their tensions. The result, observers generally agree, is a happier home life-as long as the wife does not make more money than her husband. Says Mrs. Nilza de Vasconcellos, 48, sales manager for a textile factory in Rio de Janeiro: "A woman with a career can talk with her husband, instead of just listening to him. A dialogue is always better than a monologue, and an excellent introduction to love...
...agreed upon, in principle, last fall in Rio de Janeiro by these same nations. The Stockholm Conference was and still is necessary to formalize the scheme by specifying the circumstances under which a nation may use its SDR's. It must also fix some sort of limit, probably adjusted to a nation's volume of trade and size of GNP, to which the nation may draw, and decide the manner in which the proposal must be ratified by IMF members...
...protests have clearly had an international impact. In Berlin, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, student activists study the sit-in and seizure tactics that U.S. students used to protest the war, to desegregate Southern lunch counters and to immobilize the University of California in 1964. When television carries pictures of students demonstrating in London or Manhattan, students in Amsterdam and Prague start marching...
Last week the Brazilian Indians' plight caused a worldwide outcry that may just save them from extinction. Newspapers from Rio de Janeiro to Paris and Washington focused on their problems. An open letter asking help for the Indians was sent to Brazilian President Arthur da Costa e Silva by a group of French anthropologists, including Claude Levi-Strauss, who set forth his philosophy of structuralism in Tristes Tropiques, which he wrote after studying the Brazilian Indian (TIME Essay, June 30, 1967). Meeting in Mexico, the sixth Interamerican Indigenist Congress demanded protection for Brazil's Indians, most of whom...