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Science International. Actually, UNESCO's $100,000 was just a drop in the institute's bucket. Brazil would ante up $700,000 during the project's first year. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and the Guianas, which border the Amazon basin, would kick in too. The "real progress," as Dr. Carneiro pointed out, was that the institute would be "the world's first truly international scientific undertaking...
...halls and on the terraces of Mexico's modernistic, new Teachers College, two Brazilian scientists were doing the ablest lobbying job of the UNESCO conference. Their project: a scientific study of the Amazon basin...
...could wait, but Scientists Paulo de Barredo Carneiro, biologist, and Carlos Chagas, biophysicist, were in no waiting mood. To fellow delegates, they kept hammering their points. Sample: "If [the Amazon] could be brought into food production, the world would be able to support its population." Last week they won. UNESCO set up an Amazon international institute, and appropriated $100,000 to get it going...
Atabrine & DDT. Soon UNESCO's scientists will go to Belém, at the Amazon's broad mouth, to start their institute work. As the program gets under way, they will move upstream, analyzing the soil, trying to find out what man may do with it and himself in the heat and rain. Here & there they will come upon other pith-helmeted, mosquito-booted men laden with atabrine, DDT bombs, boxed instruments, and closely guarded notes. These are the geologists of the major oil companies looking for petroleum lands. Ever since Peru's Ganso Azul (Blue Goose...
Even ever-optimistic Bill Benton was almost discouraged. Said he: "If the aim of UNESCO is not to attain greater and greater freedom of information, then it has no world objective and hence no justification for its existence...