The Brazilian Government thought it had just the place for the oft-postponed Inter-American Conference, now scheduled for next month. The place was Quitandinha, the plush resort hotel just outside the summer capital of Petropolis. But the Government had hardly announced its choice when foreign correspondents let out a loud squawk.
The correspondents well knew that the hotel, with its three bars and five dining rooms, its two swimming pools and its comfortable if chichi rooms, is the best in Brazil. What they were squawking about were the communications between Quitandinha and Rio. They were bad. Only six telephone lines run...
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