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Into the modernistic Civic Center in the Rio Grande city of McAllen (pop. 32,728) last week crowded some 650 Texans to cheer Davy Crockett's words from the movie, The Alamo: "There's right and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other, and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat." Then nearly 200 of them announced their resignations from the Democratic Party and pledged their allegiance to the G.O.P. in Texas...
Brazil was not amused to see itself in a five-part LIFE Magazine study of Latin America last spring. Photographer Gordon Parks had paid a visit to a Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, and recorded with his camera the often noted but still incredible squalor in which the favelados live-within a ten-minute drive of Rio's beautiful Copacabana Beach. But if Brazilians were stung by the truths of LIFE'S camera, by last week in the pages of O Cruzeiro (circ. 700,000), Brazil's largest picture magazine, they were reaping the rich satisfaction...
...Henri Ballot, to New York. There on Manhattan's Lower East Side, "five minutes by car from Wall Street," Ballot found exactly what he was sent to find: a New York family living in the same poverty and filth that LIFE'S camera had shown in the Rio slum. Photographer Ballot sighted in on the family of Felix Gonzales, 53, a Puerto Rican immigrant and part-time car washer...
...Cruzeiro's account of slum life "in the shadow of the Chase Manhattan and First National City Bank'' was every bit as graphic as the LIFE study of Rio. Ballot's picture of eight Gonzaleses crowded into a single slum-house bedroom had much the same impact as Parks's shot of the Rio favelados crowded into theirs. Fact was that Ballot's most moving picture-Gonzales' frail nine-year-old son Ely-Samuel asleep on a dirty mattress and apparently crawling with cockroaches-was posed. The photographer caught and distributed the roaches...
CHARLES ERICKSEN Rio de Janeiro...