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...What do you want?" "I am the shoemaker from Santarém, "he replies. A second man appears. "Did you bring the measurements?" the second man asks. "Yes, I have them." Vaz then produces the insole of a shoe with part of it missing. Manuel pulls the other part out ofhis pocket. The pieces match. "Enter...
There are some 50 Franciscan missionaries in the area, but Father Luke is the only physician among them. In 1970, he began to work "out of two black bags and a motorboat" around Santar...
...Luiz, where buzzards still feast in the streets, a modern fish-freezing plant is starting up, and across the state a new hydroelectric dam will soon boost the state's power capacity from 10,000 kw. to 235,000 kw. A group of ambitious jute traders in hustling Santarém has set up a factory that makes sacks from raw jute; it now employs 800 people. Hotels are going up almost as fast. This month a new 16 story hotel opens in Belém, the first major hotel in decades. Manaus also recently opened one-eight stories...
...Amazon's problems of poverty, illiteracy and disease. But a new outlook has come to the great river basin, and with it a new optimism. "You're going to see a lot of big changes around here," says American Bishop James Ryan, who is stationed in Santarém. "If they can do this much in two years, think what they...
...Tiago's pet project at the moment is a seminary at Santarém to teach high school and junior college subjects. A 56-room building is going up: "I have 51 men working on it-as long as I stand there watching them." Ryan gets money for his projects on hat-passing trips to the U.S., where he inevitably confronts "a little old lady who asks, 'Do the natives wear clothes?' It takes all my will power to keep from snapping back, 'Yes, they do, you lascivious-minded old hypocrite.' " To people who find...