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...afternoon last week a truck braked to a halt in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The dust-covered tarpaulin was pulled away, and out of this one truck climbed 40-odd men, women and children - sunburned, dirty and ragged under wide-brimmed straw hats. At the end of a ten-day trek from Brazil's drought-afflicted Northeast, they shouldered their clothes bundles and started out for one of the 300 hillside favelas (slums) that are home for almost 1,000,000 cariocas. Said one new arrival, the father of four: "God will help us. We will...
...hovels- in Chile they are callampas (mushrooms) because they sprout so fast; in Argentina, villas miserias (misery towns). The names reflect the inhabitants' pitiable hope or bitter humor. In Lima, one of the worst is wryly called Perla del Sol, meaning Pearl of the Sun. Defacing Rio's beautiful mountainsides are slums so flimsy that they periodically collapse in the rain and slide like an avalanche to the bottom...
They seem to be everywhere: from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande, six Democratic candidates for Governor spread-eagle Texas, taking dead aim on the May 5 primary election. But while the candidates are doing plenty of talking, the voters don't seem to be listening...
...hand the March 30 cover story on that country's Arturo Frondizi, explaining and analyzing the issues at stake. In charge of TIME'S on-the-spot coverage during these weeks of trouble in Argentina were Veteran Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Piero Saporiti, 60, and Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief John Blashill, 33. Stationed in Buenos Aires since before Frondizi was elected four years ago, Saporiti held good cards when the game got rough. He went to the Casa Rosada, Argentina's White House, where scores of newsmen were clamoring to see the embattled president. Saporiti...
...dignity has grown increasingly uncomfortable for Prince Philip, who does not like newsmen anyway (he once kicked one), and has become highly sensitive to the Beaverbrook press's constant highlighting of the expenses of his trips. Last week the prince blew up. At a press reception in Rio de Janeiro in the midst of a Latin American tour, he collared a reporter from the Daily Express. Said the prince: "The Daily Express is a bloody awful newspaper. It is full of lies, scandal and imagination. It is a vicious newspaper." On the Ramparts. To Philip's immediate defense...