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...placid, two-ton rhinoceros escaped briefly from a circus in Rio one evening last week, jamming traffic on busy Avenida Atlantica. Amid the tangle of stalled automobiles, the word darted around as erratically as a horsefly in a stable: "O Golpe! The coup!" In jittery Rio, something as commonplace as a traffic snarl could touch off rumors that the army was taking over, and the exclamation Golpe! really meant "This...
...longer can be said today that the United States is a Protestant country," said Samuel Cardinal Stritch of Chicago, as he visited Venezuela on his way home from the International Eucharistic Congress in Rio de Janeiro. "The Catholic Church is forging ahead, growing day by day and becoming stronger...
...Rio de Janeiro, the 36th International Eucharistic Congress opened before more than 250,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims from 30 nations. Twenty-one cardinals and 300 bishops are expected before the week...
...Venezuelans are scattered from the mouth of the Orinoco to Maracaibo, but nearly two-thirds of them live in Caracas, where they help to create an atmosphere of hustle and bustle rare in Latin America. From the equator to the Rio Grande, Venezuela is the only country where well-paid Europeans perform manual labor. Hard-working Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese dig ditches, pour concrete, lay bricks, hammer nails. The immigrants seldom fool around on the job; when it rains, they don slickers and keep working. There is some local resentment of the newcomers' all-work-and-no-play attitude...
...Brazilian election into a three-way race. The other top contenders are Governor Juscelino Kubitschek of Minas Gerais state, heir to the leftish populista forces of the late President Getulio Vargas, and General Juarez Tavora, hero of the conservative military leaders whose determination to clean up the mess in Rio led to Vargas' resignation and suicide last year. But rumors were louder than ever in Rio last week that the officers would postpone the election unless their man seems likely...