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...Brazilians (some 75% illiterate) who crowd the sea coast and are scattered through the vast Brazilian interior. Seringueiros (rubber workers) in the flowered Amazon jungle, garimpeiros (diamond hungers) far to the west in the State of Goiaz, and gaúchos on the broad ranges of Rio Grande do Sul probably would not hear the news for days and weeks...
...Getulio Vargas was about to go back on his announced stand ("I am not a candidate") and enter the Dec. 2 presidential election, he was telling no one. In 1930, lacking votes, he had launched his "candidacy" with the guns of his Rio Grande do Sul gaúchos. Now, he could probably corner an easy majority in any election, but the fire power was on the other side-that of presidential candidates General Eurico Caspar Dutra and Brigadier General Eduardo Gomes. As long as Vargas was not a candidate, Dutra and Gomes would attack each other. But if Vargas...
armed with spray guns and nicotine sul phate, sallied into the tomato and potato fields. Last week, thanks to their deter mined attack and the arrival of hot weather, it looked as if Ohio and its neighboring states had succeeded in repelling the worst invasion of aphids since...
Alberto Pasqualini, who had established freedom of the press in the State of Rio Grande do Sul last January, was fired as that state's Secretary of the Interior...
...Catholicism, opened the country to other faiths. Two generations of Protestant missionary work have gained about 1,000,000 adherents to various churches: Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Episcopal, Pentecostal. Fourteen-fifteenths of the work goes on in a 300-mile-wide coastal zone extending from Rio Grande do Sul to Para; the tiny remainder lies in the vast inland rural areas...