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...plane to Rio, he reflected: "I know everyone will say all this is to get publicity in the U.S. But putting aside any question of whether I will run in 1968, I do intend to take a big part in the foreign policy debate. The U.S. economy is so strong that it would take a genius to wreck it. But a small mistake in foreign policy could bring disaster...
...Negro's checkered progress toward equality. Seldom, by contrast, are they apprised of the social and economic lag that afflicts the nation's second largest disadvantaged minority: the 4,677,000 Mexican-Americans of the U.S. Southwest-proud, poor and increasingly protest-minded. From the Rio Grande to the Russian River, in the bleak barrios of East Los Angeles and the tar-paper colonias of the San Joaquin Valley, the Mexican minority is struggling to articulate its anger...
With the weariness born of too of ten seeing grandiose plans turn to dust, much of the hemisphere's press was openly skeptical about results of the conference, which Rio de Janeiro's Jornal do Brasil called "nothing but words, timid words." Even while complaining, though, many publications reflected the new mood of self-reliance and independence inspired by the Punta del Este talks. Said Confirmado, an Argentinian weekly: "Latin America has proved that it rejects dreams and prefers at last to go to work." Endorsing the common market, Saāo Paulo's O Estado declared...
...sold his firm to Random House for about $3,000,000, while remaining as board chairman; and Helen Hedrick, 64, sometime novelist (The Blood Remembers, which Knopf published in 1941); both for the second time (his first wife died last year; her husband died in 1963); in Rio de Janeiro...
...throbbing mainstream of the Amazon's economic life, thanks to the highway linking it to Brasilia. In the remote Amazon city of Manaus, Brazil's fabled old turn-of-the-century rubber capital, life moves almost as languidly as the deep black waters of the nearby Rio Negro...