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...good Latin American tradition the crop was officially overestimated early in the season, causing no end of embarrassment to Buenos Aires exporting firms which sold for future delivery more grain than the country can spare. Argentina still has wheat from last year's crop but, after supplying nations like Brazil and Colombia, there will be little new crop wheat left for Europe. Meantime what was expected to be the second largest European harvest in modern history turned out miserably. In Hungary there is even talk of famine...
...beat China, Mexico and Brazil (by default). Germany beat Italy, Australia and Czechoslovakia. Last week at Wimbledon they met in the Davis Cup interzone final to see which would play England in the challenge round...
...FARM AT PARANAO?Laurence Kirk ?Doubleday, Doran ($2). Quiet English story of a girl who migrated to Brazil to be married, the gradual development of her love for her stranger husband...
...Theodore Roosevelt, his thirst for adventure unslaked by a shooting trip in Africa and another unsuccessful crack at the U. S. Presidency, was invited to address a number of learned bodies in Argentina and Brazil. He decided to organize an expedition in the cause of mammalogy and ornithology, journey up the waters of the Paraguay River, cross over to one of the tributaries of the Amazon. Accordingly he dropped in for lunch at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, arranged to take with him Ornithologist George Cherrie, Mammalogist Leo Miller and Arctic Explorer Anthony Fiala. In Brazil...
...river, winding northward through precipitous canyons toward the Equator, almost beat them. There were grueling portages around roaring rapids. Fever and bloodsucking insects sapped their strength. Once, when a whirlpool caught a canoe, a porter was drowned and Kermit nearly perished. They eked out their provisions by eating monkeys, Brazil nuts, honey, birds, turtles, fish, palm tops. Leader Roosevelt slept in a cot, which toward the end sagged badly; the others slept in hammocks. One day, to Roosevelt's surprise. Rondon revived flagging spirits by erecting a sign naming the river "Rio Roosevelt" by authority of the Brazilian Government...