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...furthered by either Edwards or Fuller. The ghostly visitations over that swamp near Ann Arbor, Mich., last March happened too recently to have been included in either book, but sincere testimony to the miracles of the space age abound like grace. Samples: Intrepid small boys with .22 rifles near Rio Vista, Calif., last December got in some shots at a UFO hanging about the town water tower and extorted a satisfactory twang and an angry red glow from the visitor. Some Italian farmers pelted a UFO near Milan in October 1954 with rotten oranges, scoring, they claimed, some hits. They...
...Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
...irreverent cariocas put it, not even Jesus Christ, whose statue, arms outstretched, gazes down on Rio from Corcovado, would be able to do much about Brazil's endemic sin of inflation. In one 31-month period, the cost of living soared an astronomical 340%, and in 1964 alone, the year that free-spending João Goulart was thrown out, it was heading up 150%. Yet when President Humberto Castello Branco took over, he confidently vowed to achieve stability in just two years...
...behind him, Castello Branco upped tax collections, chopped subsidies, tightened credit, slowed down the currency printing presses. For all his efforts, living costs under his regime have soared no less than 117%, and he himself has had to double the official minimum wage level. Last week bus fares in Rio rose 40%, and hordes of favela dwellers began getting up hours early to walk to work. Since Castello Branco took over, the price of meat has gone up from 400 cruzeiros per kilo to 1,900, black beans from 180 to 950, rice from 100 to 560. Hardest to take...
...Rio. The matches began fortnight ago with 16 national teams in the running. By late last week, the only teams with a hope of victory were Britain, Portugal, the Soviet Union and West Germany. To the despair of their supporters, the others had fallen to noisy defeat. The loudest wails came from Brazil, whose team had won the cup in 1958 and 1962. A loss to Portugal became a nationwide calamity. From office buildings in Rio and São Paulo, clouds of black carbon paper and typewriter ribbon cascaded onto the streets below; flags were lowered to half-mast...