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Boilers Out. From Jan. 3, when he arrived in Caracas on a 36-hr, visa (later extended), Rio-based Tad Szulc (pronounced Schultz) filed the most detailed daily newspaper coverage of the off-again-on-again revolution to come out of Venezuela. With help from Caracas news sources cultivated in two years of covering South America for the Times, ex-U.P.man Szulc, 31, not only stayed on top of the story, but used every trick in the newsman's kick to ram his dispatches past the unsuspecting censors. By telephone from Caracas this week, Correspondent Szulc told...
Young made a clean sweep of Central's board (including such "goddam bankers" as two descendants of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and the head of J. P. Morgan & Co.), brought in Alfred E. Perlman from the Denver & Rio Grande to run the road. The Central was one of the most heavily mortgaged U.S. roads and in terms of its heavy and unprofitable passenger traffic one of the least desirable. But Young talked as if his mere presence would banish trouble and nurture prosperity. For a while, it seemed as if Young would repeat the success he had with the coal...
...GROSSMANN Rio de Janeiro...
...driven the Spanish out of most of their Atlantic Coast enclave of Ifni. Ifni is not much but rocky rubble and scrub, but its single city, Sidi Ifni (pop. 10,000), has been used by the Spanish as the seat of the governor of all its desert provinces-Ifni, Rio de Oro, Spanish Sahara, as well as the part of southern Morocco that they have continued to rule on the ground that King Mohammed's government is unable to establish its authority there. Last week, with Moroccans encircling Sidi Ifni's tightly held perimeter, Madrid merged...
...name was not really Helena but Alice. She was Portuguese, living with her parents in the Brazilian diamond-mining town of Diamantina, and she began to keep her record of everyday happenings in 1893, when she was twelve. In 1942, as Senhora Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant of Rio de Janeiro (her husband twice served as president of the Bank of Brazil), she published her diary in a small edition for friends and family. Famed French Novelist Georges Bernanos saw it and proclaimed it a work of genius. By the time-1952-that U.S. Pulitzer-Prizewinning Poet Elizabeth Bishop went...