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...Latin American policy. The other side is the desire to rid the hemisphere of Fidel Castro and the Communist intrusion that he symbolizes. And this job, Kennedy strongly insists, is not just U.S. responsibility but that of all the 21 American nations that are bound by the Rio treaty to combat Communist penetration in the Americas...
...Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's four-day pre-Lenten carnival is wild enough. Surging through the city's streets, jamming its clubs, they sing, samba and spray passers-by with ether, in a pleasure-madness that only exhaustion can satiate. But for Brazil's women, the Rio carnival is a rare escape from the censorious control normally exercised by fathers, husbands and fiancés. Peeling off some of their clothes and more of their inhibitions, perfectly respectable Brazilian wives and mothers become during the Rio carnival the houris of their innermost dreams...
Tough in a Toga. Long before last week's fun rolled around, Mrs. Terezinha Souza, 26-year-old secretary to the Industrial Social Service Board in Recife, 1,200 miles north of Rio, had begun to work on her harem-girl outfit. Last week, shimmying atop her table at the Municipal Theater, she let her husband-a small man in a large tuxedo-have it square in the face with a squirt of ether from a spray bomb. "I went to another party dressed as a Roman girl," she explained in a shout above...
...whoopee is without consequences; by carnival's end last week, Rio's firemen had been called out 50 times, some 6,995 people had reported into the city's hospitals for treatment of bruises and wounds, and another 2,350 had been hauled in by the cops whose charge books recorded 13 murders, three suicides, 477 fights and 87 assaults. After that came Lent. The church might not approve of all that went on, but there were earnest psychologists who argued that there were therapeutic dividends from thousands of repressions relaxed and frustrations banished...
WESTERN RAIL FIGHT for control of Western Pacific (TIME, Feb. 17) will involve the Denver & Rio Grande Western, key link between the Western Pacific and Midwestern cities. Union Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy are buying Rio Grande stock in defensive moves to prevent Santa Fe from setting up a direct Chicago-to-San Francisco route should it win control of Western Pacific...