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Guignard's newest work, on display in Rio de Janeiro last week, is a series of paintings of the Stations of the Cross for a starkly modern Roman Catholic chapel designed by Communist Architect Niemeyer. Rationed to two beers and a teaspoon of whisky a day, Guignard finished the brightly colored childlike paintings in 17 days while a record player blared Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Debussy's The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian. The critics were ecstatic. Diario Carioca called the paintings too good for the chapel...
...ships of South America's navies. If war should occur, the U.S. Navy's sub hunters will need all the help they can get. During World War II, German U-boats sliced into the shipping lanes, even managed to cut off Brazil's northeast bulge from Rio except by heavy Allied convoy. The new danger is Soviet Russia's fleet of 450 to 500 subs, a considerable number of which have been casing South America's shorelines and harbors. Plenty of these Soviet "goblins," as they are nicknamed, have shown up, and U.S. Navy hunter...
...opinion has become "the world's greatest comedian," is a shy little ragamuffin with wide-apart innocent eyes like a newborn burro's, a mouth like a long, amusing sentence, and a silly little mustache that sets it off in tiny, hairy quotation marks. From the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego he is almost as popular as orange soda, and in Mexico he is the greatest national hero since Pancho Villa. His movies make millions, his baggy-pants burlesque of the bullfight draws the biggest crowds at any corrida, his tongue-tied twaddling and self-swallowing sentences...
...Peru. At issue was a triangle of steaming upper Amazon jungle almost as big (77,000 sq. mi.) as Ecuador itself. For 400 years the tract had been claimed by both nations. Then, in 1942, the U.S. -along with Brazil, Argentina and Chile - promoted a settlement, the Protocol of Rio de Janeiro, based on Peru's de facto control. Under the protocol, the four nations were also to serve as guarantors of the peace...
...Next he plans to buy another 1,200,000 acres of nearby land and clear enough so he can grow more cane and build a refinery to supply the sugar needs of the whole territory. After that he hopes to build a plant to dry fish caught in the Rio Madeira, sell them for 20? to 30? for 2.2 Ibs. in the Amazon basin to replace the imported dried codfish that sells for $1. Furthermore, the rubber and Brazil nut trees soon will begin bearing cash crops. Says Jungle Jim: "This is pioneering the way we did out West...