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...other wide survey is the WORLD BUSINESS section's study of the international economy, which called for reporting from TIME correspondents in Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Rome, Athens, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Teheran, Tokyo, Nairobi, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Rio, Salisbury, Sydney and Moscow. Their reports, analyzed by Writer Everett Martin and Senior Editor Edward L. Jamieson, added up to an encouraging conclusion about the trend of the economy in the free world...
...DEMANDS CTI ON CL IN GBA, announced the headlines in Rio news papers. Too much bottled cheer in the composing room? Not at all. As savvy Brazilians saw at a glance, it was the perfectly normal way of saying that President Joao Goulart's Brazilian Labor Party demanded a parliamentary investigation into the actions of Governor Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara state. In their casual conversations, Brazilians can be just as cryptic, leaving the befuddled stranger convinced that, letter for letter, Brazil is the world's most overalphabetized nation...
Brazilians take to initials at least partly out of necessity. They are a people with notoriously long, complicated names. Initials and short, catchy nicknames are supposed to simplify it all. Two of Rio's top soccer teams, Flamengo and Fluminense, are known merely...
...SNAFU. Except for ADAM and EVE (Amazonas Association of Dentists; Army Veterinary School), few combinations are pronounceable. Besides, Brazilians are running out of initials; MG stands for the states of Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso as well as the Ministry of War. Coming to the rescue of its readers, Rio's morning JB (Jornal do Brasil) recently published an article entitled "Introduction to the Small Dictionary of Initials (Without Which It Is Somewhat Difficult to Read a Newspaper in Brazil)." The list ran nearly a full page and was by no means complete. Some initials stretch out longer than...
...typed out the names of five vessels within 100 miles of the Lakonia, and urgent messages were flashed to them to proceed to the stricken liner. The five were the Argentine passenger liner Salfa, the Belgian merchant ship Charlesville, the British freighters Montcalm and Stratheden, and the Brazilian freighter Rio Grande. Some were already on the way, having picked up the S O S on their own radios. The R.A.F. at Gibraltar hurriedly organized a flight of rescue planes...