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...have no hostility or animosity against foreign capital," despite Rio Grando do Sul's recent taking over of the U.S. operated International Telephone and Telegraph Company. IT & T is a utility company, and so a special case...
...defend its moral position in the Mexican War of 1846-48. Said Kennedy: "Although there might be some from Texas that might disagree, I would say we were unjustified. I don't think that this is a very bright page in American history." Predictably, Texas politicians from the Rio Grande to the Panhandle came up shooting. Cried Texas' Republican Senator John Tower: Kennedy's "glaring ignorance" of Texas' history was a "shocking surprise to many Texans who voted for his big brother for President." Said Democratic Governor Price Daniel: ''I cannot believe...
Mescaline is an alkaloid produced by the peyote cactus which is native to the Rio Grande regions of Mexico and Texas. As peyote, this curious compound has been used for many years; indeed, the Aztecs worshipped this plant as the chief of three great deities. More recently, the ingestion of peyote for its drug effect has spread among Indians of Mexico and the United States. There is a Christian sect (The Native American Church) based on sacramental use of peyote wafers, and there is also an impressive black market that ships quantities of the cactus to American students, beatniks...
Died. Candido Portinari, 58, painter laureate of Brazil who sought to capture his country's garish blend of poverty and promise in giant murals done with a fiery palette mixed from Brazilian earths; of a stroke following cumulative lead poisoning induced by his own pigments; in Rio de Janeiro. An Italian immigrant's son who once painted signs for mule carts, Portinari was the first South American ever given a one-man show by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and, though an avowed Communist for much of his career, accepted commissions for a portrait of former...
Arriving in Quito, Ecuador's Foreign Minister faced expulsion from his strongly anti-Communist party. In Rio the anti-Castro press was in an uproar and a group of Deputies wanted to haul Foreign Minister Francisco San Thiago Dantas on the carpet to explain himself. Nowhere was the clamor louder than in Argentina, where the outraged leaders of the three military services threatened to overturn the government of President Arturo Frondizi...