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...Rio Welcomes You," a 30-minute color film, will be shown by a visiting Brazilian student Monday in Lamont Forum Room. Paulo Ban Cobsky will present the film, directed by Jean Mason, which portrays Rio's tourist attractions, beaches and carnival...
...first effective stirrings of independence. It was there in 1789 that an army officer named Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (nicknamed Tiradentes, "the tooth puller," because of the amateur dentistry he practiced) joined a conspiracy against Portuguese colonial authority. The Portuguese hanged, quartered, then beheaded Tiradentes in Rio...
...Plane traffic in and out of Brasília was so heavy that the country's four major airlines set up temporary counters in the lobby of the Congress building, and as a gag Deputies went around greeting each other, "Hello, Mr. Minister." Goulart himself flew off to Rio for two days to confer with army generals and politicians...
...down Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Last week Montreal ordered rubber-tired rolling stock based on the Metro design for the 9½-mile subway it plans to build. Transaco, a French investment firm that is marketing the Metro system, recently signed technical contracts with Istanbul and Rio de Janeiro...
...When it is completed, Honduras will have more power than it can use in the immediate future. Neighboring El Salvador, the driest country in Central America, needs power for its growing textile, food-processing and shoe industries. The plan is to build a $3,000,000 transmission line from Rio Lindo to El Salvador's capital city of San Salvador -thus giving the Salvadorans electricity and the Hondurans the paying customers they need for further development...