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...missed an interesting sidelight for U.S. readers. If he ... visited "the human anthills," he must have passed St. Francis Friary . . . where live the U.S. Conventual Franciscans whose parish includes these notorious shantytowns. Two of these priests had been working singlehandedly among the favelados long before Dr. Guilherme Ribeiro Romano appeared on the scene . . . Helped by folks back home, these young Franciscans built and have maintained medical clinics and social centers, schools and chapels on Kerosene, Escondidinho and São Carlos Hills. [One] . . . piped water up the hill ... To get ... permission to tap the city water-main below...
...squalor and misery. Last week something unusual happened there: strangers invaded the hill and set to work clearing ground for a clinic, a police station and water pipes. The city government was starting a campaign to clean up the favelas, and the program's boss, Dr. Guilherme Ribeiro Romano, 37, had chosen Little Crocodile as the first project...
...Romano knows well enough that he cannot merely tear the favelas down. "There is nowhere for the favelados to go," he says. He is keeping his program limited in the hope that, unlike earlier and more grandiose schemes for abolishing the favelas, it can be carried out. His three-part plan: 1) stop the growth of favelas by preventing construction of new shacks; 2) destroy the few flatland favelas, the foulest of all because the sewage in the open ditches does not run off; 3) "civilize" the hillside favelas by providing them with police protection, free medical services, schools, electricity...
Limited as his program is, Romano faces a hard struggle. He will have to fight an endless battle with municipal agencies for funds and cooperation, and he will have to combat the hostility and apathy of the favelados themselves. But he is determined to push ahead. "This may be Rio's last chance," he said. "If we don't control the favelas, they will keep on growing and turn this city into one vast slum...
...evidence of the 34-year-old "Miracle of "Fátima" in Portugal, the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, recently printed Page One pictures which were reprinted by newspapers and magazines around the globe (TIME, Dec. 3). The pictures showed the sun darkened near the horizon, supposedly shortly after noon on Oct. 13, 1917. Thousands of people who had gathered that day, on the same spot where three Portuguese children said they had seen visions of the Virgin Mary, declared that they had seen the noonday sun swirl and dip. The pictures were evidence of the miracle...