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12 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Dec. 12, 1962 Wednesday
Place Rio
Weather Warm & cloudy; humid
We got my camera at the Zeiss place today, & they declared nothing was wrong with it!!! But no one knew where my Weston meter had gone, so I could not take pictures at the IOC. Donna Maria Magdalena, Bertha's friend & the editor of the Institute's publications, had Dr. Lutz's old lab unlocked, & showed me the western Brazilian frogs all ready for me —perhaps 40 jars or ±200 specimens in all. At noon we had "breakfast" in the new lunchroom —the typical rice, black-eyed beans & raw onion, steak (tough, but with a delicious flavor), coffee-flavored hot milk, & orange marmalade. Then Donna MM took us up on the roof to see the really magnificent view of the bay, the distant city, Corcovado & the new-made roads & factories at the foot of the hill which did not improve it in my opinion. The library was as I remembered it, with wonderful intricate carvings on sides of desks & table legs, & table tops a yard wide of a single slab of jacaranda wood. We quit at 4, & the IOC paid for our taxi back to town, as well as lunch & coffee.
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 13
Date Dec. 13, 1962 Thursday
Place Rio
Weather Cloudy, warm, humid; light showers
We went to the museum this morning, & as Doris had finished the few beetles there, & her interview with the entomologists that she wants to write up, she had a look at the exhibits. About 11, Bertha came in, very tense and nervous because of the drop in the cruzeiro & the general communist dictator bonds in the government. She had all the same asked her friend Dona Edméa Cabral Velho to take us shopping, so at 4 we met her & went first to the Guimaraes store which was a fearful clutter and did not have the stamped pieces to be embroidered that I wanted. Then she took us to Zitrin where gems are sold both set & unset, & we had a wonderful time looking at their tourmalines, topazes, amethysts, aquamarines, & garnets. We got some of all except tourmalines, which were too costly, & Dona Edmea walked us back to our hotel, about a mile thru busy & fascinating but on the whole cheap & modernistic shops.
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