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...tomorrow. The malodorous, disease-ridden favelas (shantytowns) on Rio's hillsides are better indicators of the standard of living than the new apartment houses near by. Millions of rural Brazilians live in shacks, exist on a diet of beans, rice and manioc root, with a little jerked beef. Two out of three are illiterate...
Inflation inhibits foreign investment in Brazil, and lessens the country's eligibility for loans or direct aid from Washington. It has also had a disastrous effect on Brazilian workers. The real wages of many workers in Rio shrank within the past five years, as beef soared from 9 cruzeiros a kilogram in 1950 to 46 today, butter from 34 to no. One of the odder symptoms of mass discontent is the mushroom growth of umbanda or espiritismo, a white-magic religious cult with elaborate African rituals. There were 75,000 registered espiri-tistas...
...policeman and remarked, "Now this just goes to show how popular Joe is, and how right about everything he is, too." "Yeh," replied the uniform, "they shoulda hired out the Garden, look at the mob." The crowd of a thousand strung all the way to the Bay Street Beef Co. sign down the street. To satisfy the overflow a sound truck lumbered into position with the tinkling of the piano music inside drifting from its microphones...
Refugees from the countryside told of another Communisi device to take over. Systematically. Red troops seized the properties of some 100 French settlers, in all 370,000 acres of paddyfields. coffee and tea plantations, dairy and beef cattle farms. A month ago, the last Frenchman lost his land, 35,000 acres of paddies, and fled south completely ruined. In Hanoi French businessmen took the lesson to heart...
...Invited some 40 reporters and photographers to a beef-stew feed at the Cherry Hills Club, and personally supervised the work of Club Chef Jack Pierce...