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Correspondent George de Carvalho is beginning to rank as an expert on exotic rivers. Five years ago, as our Rio de Janeiro bureau chief, he suggested and did the reporting for the color story on the Amazon (Nov. 23, 1959). Not long after he became Beirut bureau chief in 1962, he began to visualize color pages of the Nile. Last summer he sold his idea to the editors; the results, thousands of miles, words and transparencies later, are the eight pages of color pictures and a timely story...
...sensation-mongering newspapers declared Brizola dead. Then came Brizola's voice over a radio transmitter somewhere in the south. When Brizola's wife Neuza joined Brother Jango and his family in their Montevideo exile, she claimed that Brizola was somewhere in Uruguay. But ten days later, a Rio paper front-paged a letter from Leonel "somewhere in Brazil." "I have traveled thousands of kilometers," he wrote, "and visited hundreds and hundreds of homes and ranch es. Everywhere I was received...
Better from Rio. Goulart first became a landholder in 1943, when he inherited a 3,520-acre ranch in Rio Grande do Sul from his father. But his genius was not apparent until his great teacher, Getúlio Vargas, returned to the presidency in 1951, and Jango went with him to Rio. Suddenly, Goulart found ranching and real estate highly profitable when practiced from the nation's capital. Items...
...home state of Rio Grande do Sul, Goulart's holdings grew until he now owns four ranches totaling 36,530 acres, stocked with 24,000 head of cattle, 20,000 sheep, 1,500 horses. He also reportedly owns several parcels of real estate in the Pôrto Alegre state capital, plus 25 rental houses in the town of São Borja...
...Guanabara state, Goulart owns a $50,000 apartment overlooking Copacabana Beach, and a dairy farm outside Rio...