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...Even as a novice, he had doubts about Catholicism's Marian dogmas and about papal infallibility; as a priest, he also came to question the validity of the Mass and confession. Sent to Brazil to teach philosophy, Hegger learned the tenets of Protestantism from a Methodist pastor in Rio ; in July 1948 he formally left the church...
Gilbert himself was safely out of reach in Rio. Though Brazil recently signed its first extradition treaty with the U.S., the Brazilian Congress has not yet ratified...
...heart the forms of the Southern clouds on the 30th of April, 1882, and could compare them in his memory with the mottled streaks on a book in Spanish binding he had only seen once and with the outlines of the foam raised by an oar in the Rio Negro the night before the Quebracho uprising." Borges contrasts this world of heightened perceptions with the real world of clumsy generalizations. In Deutsches Requiem, a commandant of a Nazi concentration camp becomes an example of an overthinking man. Stifling his feelings and perceptions, he justifies the slaughter of Jews because...
...both Pan Am and TWA have lately suffered heavy traffic losses to state-owned foreign airlines (BOAC, Air France, KLM, etc.). Pan Am also fears a threatened invasion of its traditional Latin American preserve by Russia's Aeroflot, which has been quietly negotiating its way across Africa toward Rio de Janeiro...
...Politics. The man most responsible for WHO's progress on 825 projects in 1961, "Marco" Candau, 51, is the first person in history to earn the title of "doctor to the world." Born across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, graduated from its school of medicine in 1933, Dr. Candau went to work in his home state's health department. After a year at Johns Hopkins, where he polished his correct English, Dr. Candau won acclaim in a Rockefeller health project in Brazil. From that, it was but a step to WHO in 1950, running its office...