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The article reports on a new monetary system approved by member countries of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1967 during talks in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It states that the system is called as special drawing rights (SDRs) which consists of artificial reserves from the IMF. Moreover, it tells that such reform is needed as the phase of international trade has changed.

The article offers information on the advertisement of James Bryan Choate of his local product called the caninha Garcas or the raw-sugarcane alcohol which the citizens of Rondonia, Brazil interpreted as the start of the local industry. It mentions that the advertisement became a hit on the local papers of Brazil and enables the natives of the area to stop sending money for caninha to the territory of Rio de Janiero. The article also gives a brief background of Choate including his married life.

The article profiles African American woman Carolina Maria de Jesus who lived life in a slum area in São Paulo, Brazil. It mentions that Carolina writes the details of her life in notebooks from trash piles, and scavenging scrap paper is one of her jobs. De Jesus was overheard by the reporter Audálio Dantas while talking to a friend about the diary on her life. She earned from her diary compiled by Dantas into a book titled "Quarto de Despejo" (Garbage Room) with 80,000 copies.

The article reports on the transfer of the Brazilian government into Brasilia as it becomes the capital of Brazil. Juscelino Kubitschek, the President of Brazil, has allocated 500 million U.S. dollars for the development of the city as its capital. The infrastructure and commercial developments in the capital have been anticipated to become a tourist destination.

The article focuses on the issue on Fidel Castro's leadership in Cuba. It highlights the Cuban tractor deal, which represents a monumental propaganda setback for Castro, that was hotly debated in the U.S. It cites the statement of Argentine President Arturo Frondizi at a press conference about Castro's move to trade Cubans for tractors. It outlines the move of the publishers of Uruguay's biggest papers in Montevideo as well as the people in Brazil, Japan and Russia concerning the issue in Cuba.

The article features Brazilian publisher Franciscode Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello. He is a lawyer who has a spectacular career as reporter and editor. He owns radio stations and newspapers and has launched a television station in Sao Paolo. He once opposed the dictatorship of President Getulio Vargas and yields a huge impact on Brazilian public opinion.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in the previous issues including the story on female theologians and feminist concerns, an article on Ray Peterson's recording of "Tell Laura I Love Her" and the article on Brazilian lands and Pan American Airways Corp. vice president Humphrey Toomey in the June 20, 1960 issue.

The article focuses on the efforts of Brazilian President Jusielino Kubitschek concerning the industrialization of Brazil. It states that Kubitschek is proud that he has achieved his goals and has surpassed them with factories, roads, and cities. It adds that his priority is the fast advancement of Brazil as there are millions of people to supply with power, tools, and the essentials of life. It also mentions comments of Kubitschek's detractors and his move to combat them.

The article reports on the political and economic conditions in Brazil following the abdication of the country's president Janio Quadros. It states that the new parliamentary system that was created to limit the administrative power of Quadros' successor, Vice President Joao Goulart, has limited the government's power to govern. Moreover, inflation continues where prices increased which affected workers and demand pay increases. It also mentions the difficulties in the country's foreign affairs.

The article focuses on the Amazon O Rio Mar (The River Sea) which allows people to build permanent and growing economy from vast frontier in Brazil. The rubber boom is considered as biggest development of the Amazon. It points out that settlers tend to come in the place to turn its wasteland into farms and into communities.

The article offers information on Brazil which had been known as the major political and economic influence in South America with a population of 103 million. It mentions that the country was formerly called the United States of Brazil due to its democratic type of government patterned on the U.S. model. It further states that the generals changed the country's named to Federated Republic of Brazil ten years after a military coup ousted the leftist government of President Joao Goulart. The regime of Brazil was controlled by the juntas wherein they imposed strict censorship on the press and the arts and had tortured priests and Catholic lay workers who have been organizing the poor.

The article focuses on how several pagan cults in Brazil including Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Candomble worship the sea goddess Iemanj and discusses topics on Spiritism, a term which refers to the adoption of the practices of witchcraft and extrasensory psychological exercises. It mentions how the devotees gather at the country's beaches during the New Year's Eve to offer worldly things including combs, jewelry, and perfume to Iemanj. It cites the people's belief that the offering is accepted if it does not wash back onto the shore. Furthermore, it notes that the beach rite is the most prominent pagan practice in Brazil. It also reveals that many of the Brazilians who claim to be Catholics are also involved in spiritism which is said to be posing a distinct threat to the Catholic church.

The article focuses on the Jogo do bicho, an animal game which has been a national institution in Brazil for several years. It states that this animal game has known for its tempting nature for police and politicians to make kickbacks and corruptions. It also notes that this game is a 500 million-a-year U.S. dollars business that employs roughly 1% of the nation's total working force.

The article focuses on the economic resurgence in Brazil that is carried out by the nation's Planning Minister Roberto Campos. It relates that the resurgence is highlighted by controlling some of its economic problems including inflation, currency fluctuations and olden capital market, which are made possible through the influx of foreign investments. It also cites some foreign investments to the country from foreign investors including Israel's Klabin SA, Volkswagenwerk, and Ford Motor Co. Ltd.

The article focuses on Roman Catholic bishop James Conleth Ryan in Santarém, Brazil. It notes that Ryan was ordained in the Franciscan Order in Illinois and answered a Franciscan call for volunteers to go to Brazil wherein he established a new parish. It adds that Ryan has opted for a Brazilian citizenship and continues to raise funds to build new schools and support existing ones.

The article offers information on the Movimento Brasileiro de Alfabetizaçao (Mobral) educational program implemented in Brazil which offers basic literacy education to adults. It says that Mobral involves a cost of 9.33 dollars per student. It tells that Mobral could improve its productivity if its implementation would be similar to that of a United Nations laboratory project. It adds the one of the requirements to gain a Mobral certificate is for a student to understand newspapers.

The article offers information on the quality and attributes of the legal system in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. According to policemen, country's legal system makes it difficult and impossible to convict criminals because despite the seriousness of the offense, no capital punishment is given to criminals and no convict serves more than 30 years. Because of the scenario, it states that some people take the law into their hands and formed death squads to execute criminals.

The article offers information on the murder of Haroldo Gurgel, a reporter of "O Momento" newspaper in Goiania, Brazil. A story by Gurgel is published about how Pedro Arantes, the head of the Electric Energy Commission, rationed electric power according to his whim. The publication of the story made Arantes angry who ordered his goons to kill him. A public outcry over the murder, however did not lead to the arrest of Arantes and his men.

The article focuses on the closure of the periodical "Ultima Hora," published and edited by Samuel Wainer in Brazil. The periodical was financed by industrialists who support President Getulio Vargas and from the Vargas-controlled Bank of Brazil. The periodical was promoted in top circulation groups in Rio and Sao Paulo. The periodical was closed because under the nationalistic constitution of Brazil, only native-born Brazilians can own, publish or edit newspapers.

The article focuses on the reactions of the cast and crew of the film "Tarzan and the Big River" during its filming in Brazil. It states that Mike Henry, an ex-National Football League Linebacker, who plays Tarzan had 18 stitches after a scene with a chimpanzee. A native crewman was given on-the-spot salary increases when he refused to take a lion's rump. It adds that Rafer Johnson, former Olympic Decathlon champion, who plays a villain in the film, has backed off from his scene with a leopard.

The article focuses on the life of businessman Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello, best known as Assis Chateaubriand, in Brazil. Chateaubriand was a wealthy businessman in the country, who owns 58 companies including television stations, pharmaceutical companies, and ranches. It mentions Chateaubriand's several community services however, Mello's struggle had started when he was sick with cerebral thrombosis and his two sons, Gilberto and Fernando, were fighting over his fortune.

The article offers several descriptions of Brazil. It mentions that Brazil is potentially one of the world's greatest agricultural nations. It stresses that Brazil was the world's fourth largest nation after Russia, China, Canada and until the U.S. added Alaska. It states that Brazil covers nearly half the surface of South America and half the continent's 140 million population.

The article offers information on the history and achievements of painter Manabu Mabe. Before his family transferred to Brazil, his father was a ferryboat owner and a hotelkeeper in Japan and later worked as a laborer on a Sao Paulo coffee plantation. Manabu, then, began his passion in calligraphic abstraction painting, which at present garnered him awards in Sao Paulo's Contemporary Art Salon, best painter in oils for Paris' Prix Braun and a scholarship in Paris, France.