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...Portugal, Elbrick had been a hit with Brazilians almost from the moment he arrived on July 8. While maintaining scrupulously formal relations with the military regime, he mixed enthusiastically among the civilian population. One evening he and his wife danced past midnight at a party with Brazilians from Rio's ramshackle favelas. After the murder of U.S. Ambassador John Gordon Mein in a kidnap attempt in "Guatemala a year ago, Elbrick's predecessor, John Tuthill, kept a bodyguard and frequently changed cars and routes for the trip between the downtown Rio embassy and residence in Rio...
...nothing. Shortly after lunch, Elbrick left for the embassy. He never arrived. His Cadillac swung into a narrow street, a red Volkswagen swerved to a halt in front of it, and a blue one pulled up behind. Three gunmen got in the car and drove on to Rio's 2,300-ft. Corcovado Peak, apparently chloroforming the ambassador along the way. At the mountain, the kidnapers carried the ambassador to a waiting Volkswagen and sped off, leaving his chauffeur behind unharmed...
...Cleveland, Harlem in New York-in short, race riots, poverty, slums. To others, the urban crisis is manifest daily in clogged freeways, rising land costs and inadequate parks, plus a persistent dissatisfaction with urban life. But how many Americans think of the appalling squalor of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the bidonvilles of Algiers, the vecindades of Mexico City, or the nocturnal streets, littered with sleeping bodies, of Calcutta? There, the urban crisis is compounded by the lack of shelter, food, jobs and, above all, hope...
Prolonged exposure to loud noise probably causes heart flutter, headaches and constriction of the blood vessels-not to mention partial deafness. But noise can also be an expression of exuberance, and there are no more exuberant people than the Brazilians. Citizens of Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo hold polite sidewalk conversations by shouting at each other above the city noises. Do they mind? Quite the contrary. "Sāo Paulo is noisier than here," says Housewife Itacy Buarque de Macedo, "but our noise is more simpatico...
...growing air-and water-pollution problems, he says, "the city noises are assaulting our sanity." Studies show that children (and presumably adults as well) in Sāo Paulo have already lost some acuity of hearing, because as noise increases the ability to hear decreases. Experienced travelers to Rio book rooms in the back of the great hotels that line Copacabana Beach, forsaking the glorious views over the harbor in order to be as far as possible from the amplified autos snarling along Avenida Atlantica. Says Aimone Camardella, director of industrial physics at the National Institute of Technology: "Noise...