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...Bernstein, William Rospigliosi, John Luter. MADRID: Piero Saporiti. JOHANNESBURG: Alexander Campbell. BEIRUT: James Bell, David Richardson. NEW DELHI: James Burke, Joe David Brown, Achal Rangaswami. SINGAPORE: John Dowling. HONG KONG: John M. Mecklin. TOKYO: Dwight Martin, James L. Greenfield. MEXICO CITY: Robert Lubar, Rafael Delgado Lozano. PANAMA: Philip Payne. Rio DE JANEIRO: Cranston Jones. BUENOS AIRES: Ramelle MaCoy...
Last week her bones lay in Rio's cathedral, where she was baptized and married. At the foot of her coffin lay the rose of solid gold awarded her by Pope Leo II after she had signed the Golden Law. For three days Brazilians of all colors, free men all, passed in mournful procession. Said the rector of the University of Brazil: "Greater than the empire she lost was her title, Isabel the Redemptress...
...Laredo, the Rio Grande ran dry (TIME, June 15), until irrigation upstream was curtailed. Grass on the ranges is burning brown and then disappearing. Great cracks are ripping open in the bare, scorched earth. The brown soil is blowing, an eerie haze against the blazing blue sky, forming dunes in the fields and lying in ripples against the sides of buildings...
Next morning a crowd of some 25,000 began snaking along in cars on U.S. Highway 50, which winds with the Arkansas' west bank. Across the river, on the twisting tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, photographers climbed aboard handcars. At one-minute intervals the boatmen began shoving off from Big Bend, five miles north of Salida, into the chilly (52° F.) torrent. The first big test, Bear Creek Rapids, which a week earlier dashed a boatman to death, lived up to its bad reputation by capsizing the first starter. Soon Theo Bock lost his lead...
...life of the joint commission for another three or four months. Brazilian Ambassador Walther Moreira Salles also got word that another $48 million worth of electric-power loans would probably be granted before the end of June, and that the World Bank would open a special office in Rio to keep the bank up to date on the backlog of $226 million worth of pending loan projects after the commission folds...