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Flying into Rio de Janeiro on a lecture tour, Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, 57, irritably denied that he felt any guilt for serving as top scientist on the first A-bomb project. "I carry no weight on my conscience," insisted the white-haired director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, whose security clearance for participation in U.S. nuclear development was withdrawn in 1954. "Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has now changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of government, not of scientists." But in the Oppenheimer scheme...
Half a Loaf. With a private army at his back of tough Gauchos from his own state of Rio Grande do Sul, Jango laid proper claim to the Presidency. In doing so, he had the backing of nearly every civilian leader in Brazil, whatever their misgivings. The solution was the inauguration of Goulart as President, but under a new constitutional amendment making him a figurehead in a parliamentary system controlled by a Prime Minister...
Political Career. In 1930, Neighbor Vargas set out to march to Rio and seize control of Brazil. Ousted in 1945, he got to know and like his neighbor's son. Together they sat on Vargas' stoop, sipped the gaucho herb tea called mate through silver straws, talked politics. In 1950, when Vargas swept back to power (this time in a free election), Goulart went along to Rio with him. Goulart watched over the labor movement for Vargas, be came his Labor Minister. In the ministry he embarked on a short but highly successful campaign to buy popular support...
...widest radio audience in the U.S. is commanded not by any U.S. station but by Mexico's XERF. just across the Rio Grande from Del Rio. Texas. XERF's transmitter boasts 250,000 watts, five times more than any U.S. station is permitted, and it can even be heard across the Canadian border. Moreover. XERF is gloriously free of the restrictions that the FCC puts on U.S. stations. Such a setup seems made to order for huckstering baubles, panaceas-and marked-up thingumabobs that cannot get airspace in the U.S. -and it is. But XERF's prime...
...earliest panacea peddlers to cross the Rio Grande was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the ''goat-gland" tycoon who exploited his failing listeners' yearnings for potency to the tune of some $1,000,000 a year before he died bankrupt...