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...Disney's first full-length nature films, The Living Desert (which cost $300,000) and The Vanishing Prairie ($400,000), are bulling toward world grosses of $5,000,000 and $4,000,000 respectively. And all over the world, holiday revivals of old Disney favorites are flourishing. In Rio de Janeiro six movie houses are running a seven-day Festival do Disney, and the main department stores have based their Christmas decorations on Disney characters. Said one merchant: "Disney will soon be to us what Santa Claus...
...thousands of Brazilians who found government hospitals and free-care clinics in Rio closed to them last week. Some 600 government doctors were on strike. The doctors' complaint: Brazil's President Joao Cafe Filho, determined to hold down government spending and stop runaway inflation, had vetoed a bill that would have upped minimum salaries of all government employees holding university degrees (TIME...
...find a way to ease their salary pinch, and 2) if they did not go back promptly, he would begin drafting them into the army. (Most young or middle-aged Brazilian doctors are rated as military reservists.) That worked. At their strike headquarters in the dance hall of Rio's High Life carnival club, the doctors voted to end the strike. But the government stuck to its decision to fire the 210. Explained Labor Minister Alencastro Guimaraes: "Department heads with years of professional experience should have known better...
...days after the strike's end, a special joint session of Congress met to consider Cafe Filho's veto. In wage-conscious Rio, not one Congressman was bold enough to speak in the President's defense, but when the debate ended, the vote in favor of the wage-raise bill (124-120) fell far short of the needed two-thirds majority, and the President's veto stood...
...story of the charge of the Light Brigade and the incompetent, blundering commanders who consigned the unit to needless destruction. GREAT RIVER, by Paul Horgan, showed what can happen when a fine novelist with a sense of history tackles a congenial subject, in this case the story of the Rio Grande country from prehistoric time...