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...woman lawyer is no longer a surprise: Peru has some 200. Nor for that matter is a lady engineer or banker. In Rio, Lotta Macedo Scares, 54, a member of one of Brazil's oldest families, spends her days in baggy blue jeans and checkered shirt as a construction executive, bossing a $700,000 park-and-playground project bordering Guanabara Bay. Her compatriot, Sandra Cavalcanti, a Sorbonne-educated linguist, is organizing the National Housing Bank and has plans to finance several million private homes over the next 20 years. "Within three years," she vows, "the National Housing Bank will...
...with God for Freedom." It drew 800,000 marchers and was a factor in convincing Brazil's military to oust Goulart. A day after he fell, Doña Amélia did even better, drawing a record 1,000,000 people for a "March of Thanksgiving" in Rio...
...medium in Director Bryan Forbes's Seance on a Wet Afternoon. The best director was Stanley Kubrick of Dr. Strangelove, and the best screenwriter was Harold Pinter, for The Servant. The best foreign-language picture of the year was Jean-Paul Belmondo's That Man from Rio...
Autumn's strongest scenes turn on the senseless murder of a Cheyenne by transient cowpokes, and the tribe's ritual slaying of a brave (Sal Mineo) who has taken another man's wife. Here and in the stoic, timeless beauty of Squaw Dolores Del Rio are intimations of the tragedy that might have been. Most of the time, though, Ford scatters his beleaguered redskins listlessly across a 70-mm. Super Panavision landscape, showing twice the width but little of the scope that distinguished such Ford classics as Stagecoach. Perhaps he feels alien to Indians...
...stranded passengers, who were finally evacuated safely. In California, gale winds whipped bridges off their foundations and stranded hundreds of motorists on the Red wood Highway. Almost every town along the Eel River, in the northwestern corner of the state, was under water. City officials in Rio Dell put out orders to knock down telephone and power poles to convert the main street into a landing pad for rescue helicopters. In the Indian reservation towns of Hoopa and Willow Creek, the whole population fled to the high-ground school auditorium. In other towns, the rampaging waters were too swift even...