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Ferree puts affluence's refuse to remarkable purpose. Four times weekly he climbs into a worn old bus and distributes these goods to the Mexican migrant workers who live in brutalizing squalor on both sides of the Rio Grande. But that only begins his chores. After persistent dunning, drug companies have shipped tons of vitamins and medicines to Harlingen, and Ferree dispenses them in the Mexican towns of Reynosa and Matamoros, where he has established makeshift clinics in abandoned shacks. He ministers to minor ailments himself; with the help of admiring merchants on both sides of the border...
...world's population rises, so does the number of deaths. As a result, the urban overcrowding that increasingly afflicts the living is having a similar effect upon the dead. Cemeteries are running out of room, and in no city is the problem more acute than in bustling Rio de Janeiro. Rio's 4.5 million are jammed into a narrow strip that runs between mountains and the sea, and the southern half of the city has already run out of space for the dead...
Each carneiro (tomb) in Rio's edifice will sell for $1,800, but tenancy is guaranteed in perpetuity. To comply with Rio law, 10% of the tombs will be rented at $80 for five years to those who can't afford to buy. Another 5%-all on the top floor amid the ventilating machinery-will go free to the poor. Silva e Souza himself hasn't yet purchased his own carneiro. "I'm kind of hoping," he says wistfully, "that they'll give me one free...
...this should put Rio far ahead of Nashville, Tenn., where a three-story vertical mausoleum with a capacity of 9,000 bodies is slowly rising at Woodlawn Memorial Park. "We're just coming out of the ground with the second story now," reports Owner H. Raymond Ligon, "and if sales continue to go as well as at present, we'll keep on building...
...displeased with long hair, miniskirts, rock music and the decrease in churchgoing among Altinho's youth. But Dona Nina Lemos, another of the town's schoolteachers, questioned that notion. She wondered: "If God were going to punish clothing styles, wouldn't he send a plague on Rio or New York or Paris? Why Altinho...