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Fashioned from steel and concrete and reminiscent of the arms-out stretched statue of Christ on Rio de Janeiro's Corcovado Mountain, the 67-ft.-high "Christ of the Ozarks" is visible ten miles away, will soon be illuminated at night by blue, violet and purple spot lights. Why did Smith put it up? "A vision in my own heart," he says, "of wanting to see a statue of Jesus Christ rise in monumental splendor." And, ah, another reason: Smith plans to use the statue as a grave marker for his wife and himself, is having a cemetery prepared...
...also masterminded Lady Bird's raft ride down the Rio Grande last spring. She persuaded park rangers to abandon their headquarters so that it could serve as a pressroom. She checked the river to make sure that there was enough water for rafting, placed privies at strategic sand bars along the route. For the benefit of anxious photographers, she launched the expedition under a full moon. And she exhorted the reporters: "The management of this trip is not responsible if these elaborate procedures fail to work. In that case, don't blame us. Just put the copy...
John M. Guckenhoimer, of Dallas, Texas (Mathematics); Adalberto Lopez, of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (Social Studies); Frank B. Purcell, of Cambridge (English), and Barry K. Rosen, of Newtonville (Mathematics...
...jobs ranging from driving hacks to guiding tours. About all he remembers of his formal education is that "I learned how to add and subtract and multiply." That apparently was enough. Today, at 65, Tjurs has gathered together Brazil's biggest hotel chain; among his six hotels are Rio's 220-room Excelsior Copacabana, Sao Paulo's 17-story Jaragua and the 420-room Nacionál in Brasilia. All of this grew from the time when, at age 40, he took the last $1,000 that he had salvaged from a bankrupt São Paulo...
...Ears. Pairing Jean-Paul Belmondo and Ursula Andress in a feckless adaptation of Jules Verne's The Tribulations of a Chinese Gentleman, Director Philippe de Broca overbids to repeat the success of his hilarious mock-action thriller, That Man from Rio. The trouble is that Director de Broca's imitation of his own winning formula is not a whit better than anyone else's, and a good deal worse than some...