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...Editor Jorge Mantilla of Ecuador's El Comercio, who won the $500 prize for "work on behalf of press freedom" after he refused to print a government communique in his paper and was closed down by the police; and Carlos Lacerda, fiery publisher of Brazil's Tribuna da Imprensa (TiME. Aug. 16), for his crusading editorials against government corruption. Said Lacerda: "There is one lesson we learn from events in Brazil. [It is the] growing responsibility of the press in forming a public opinion capable of fighting...
...many candidates were still not sure whether they had won or lost. But the tallying was far enough along to show that Vargas' vengeful legacy had failed to kindle a political bonfire. In Rio, Vargas' son Luthero won a House of Deputies seat; but so did Tribuna da Imprensa Editor Carlos Lacerda, the late President's fiercest newspaper critic. In Vargas' home state of Rio Grande do Sul, at week's end, the hand-picked president of the Vargas-created Labor Party, Joao Goulart, was a poor third in his Senate race; the Labor Party...
...doctor's studies than the freshman anatomy class in which he learns how the human body is put together by taking one apart. But dissection of the dead has always filled nonmedical men with horror. Popes and emperors have forbidden it. Such great artist-anatomists as Da Vinci and Vesalius had to cut through layers of superstition and prejudice before they could use the dead to reveal the secrets of life. Ghouls such as Britain's famed Body-snatchers Burke and Hare committed murder to supply the anatomists' demand, and added the word "burking" to the language...
...Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie. Next day Milanese climbed out of their shelters to behold what seemed almost a miracle: the two side walls of the refectory had collapsed, but the north and south walls still stood-like playing cards on edge. The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, remained intact under the sandbags protecting the north wall...
There are two short stories in this Advocate, both unpretentious and excellently written. Except for a few lines of mutually embarrassing dialect ("Da Jevvys don't want no one screwin' roun' wi dat pia-ano . . ."), Frederick Kimball's account of an artist in Jesuit clothing moves serenely to its well-ordained conclusion. Christopher Lasch's story of boy's despair before a more accomplished, less dependent companion never loses subtlety at the expense of clarity...