Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief George de Carvalho, with New York Photographer Anthony Linck, traveled 10,000 miles for almost a month by motor launch, native dugout canoe, truck, jalopy and a variety of barely airworthy small planes, visited scores of river towns, oil and mineral exploration camps, pioneer farms...
Beyond the borders of civilization, they encountered primitive Indians in long, swishing costumes of grass (to keep away insects), others who wore only strings of polished fish scales or small stones around their necks and hips. At some stops, their presents of candy, fishhooks and pocket mirrors were rewarded by...
Last week, back at his base in Rio, De Carvalho dutifully reported on the former U.S. army colonel who calls the Amazon city of Belém "better than ten New Yorks put together," and on the doctor who said that the town of Manaus "is really a fine place...
"Actually," said Vag, "I was just joking where I wrote that stuff and crossed it out." His palms were beginning to sweat.
The Yalies were fooled by Kinney's ball-handling, but in the second half they rolled through the previously strong Crimson defenses. Jud Calkins, a doubtful starter because of an injury, almost stole the show from Kinney and piloted Yale back into the game.