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...which ran last week in Rio's Correio de Manhā, would have been unthinkable a few months ago. For all their recurrent economic and political crises, the Brazilians are traditionally a gentle, urbane people who believe that any problem on earth can be solved by jeito, the artful...
...lies around sopping up sun in a bracelet or maybe some sunglasses. And occasionally she even slips into a minuscule peekini swim suit. It's just that buff looks best on Brigitte Bardot, 29. But when a cameraman dropped in by invitation at her rented beach house near Rio, Brigitte pulled on a striped T shirt, tight and faded blue jeans and above-the-knee boots, just the getup for a tropical beach scene. And the result was practically chichi. Her two-month seclusion with Playboy-friend Bob Zagury seems to have agreed with...
...Recife, Pope Paul VI has picked a spunky little churchman who has never had a diocese or even a parish of his own. Overjoyed at being handed one of the toughest, most critical jobs in Catholicism is Helder Pessôa Câmara, 55, Auxiliary Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro since...
...mara is known from Rome to Rio as the most outspoken figure in the Brazilian church. At a recent Vatican Council session, he seriously suggested that his fellow bishops toss their jeweled episcopal rings, mitres and other symbols of office away. Just before returning to Brazil, Câmara candidly told Pope Paul that he should get rid of the sedia gestatoria (portable papal throne) and the flabella, the white ostrich feather fans carried beside it. Camara identifies with new-wave Catholic leaders, says: "The church must join the battle for development and social justice so that later people will...
...mara goes about his business as if transistorized. Eyes, arms, legs and mind are always in a flurry of motion. While Auxiliary Archbishop of Rio, he consistently upstaged the doughty Archbishop, Cardinal Jaime de Barros Câmara (no kin). Helder Câmara's charity bazaars have been social occasions for Brazil's jet set, and always immensely profitable. In public relations he was a pro: "What is not used in the house of the wealthy is wealth in the house of the poor." When Pope Paul (then Giovanni Battista Montini) visited Brazil...