Word: bahia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still dickering with buyers about the price: the high-grade yellow variety fetches as much as $94 per Ib. Another miner found a huge piece worth $3,300 and immediately hired 100 men at $3 apiece per day to help him dig. A youth deserted his job in Bahia, 400 miles away, found a fine stone that he sold for $190, later discovered that the buyer quickly resold it for more than $2,500. Luckier was the young lady who spent four days digging in the pits, made $2,700, then quit and went home a rich woman...
...poverty-stricken Northeastern Brazil, a peasant named Ze, honoring the saint who spared the life of his injured donkey, carries a cross "as heavy as Christ's" 30 miles to the Church of Santa Barbara in Bahia. In the city, Ze's wife Rosa is seduced by a sneering pimp. Next morning a vindictive priest refuses to let Ze enter the church, scorning his promise to the saint as a pagan vow made through an intermediary god at a macumba ceremony. "Black magic," cries the priest. Ze shakes his head sadly. "My church has no image of Santa...
Almost everyone agrees that Petrobras' operations are hampered by ill-trained and featherbedding workers. Last year Petrobras held up construction on an ammonia plant in Bahia, yet kept on most of the 400 workers hired for the plant, transferring them to other jobs. Companies doing business with Petrobras also complain that its personnel solicit bribes and kickbacks. On several deals, according to insiders, Petrobras has imported crude oil at prices well above the market and exported refined products at a loss. Moreover, Communist-leaning agitators dominate Petrobras' powerful refining and pro duction unions-which, in turn, suggest their...
...between was the country's most popular columnist and radio commentator. As governor of Guanabara he has built schools, modernized hospitals, cleared slums and lured foreign investment to his state. But his strongest talent is for violent political warfare. "Carlos Lacerda," says his longtime friend, former Bahia Governor Juracy Magalhāes, "is a man who cannot live without an anvil to hammer...
Home was an apartment in Hassan's Bahia Palace, furnished in white leather and looking out over vast palm groves toward the Atlas Mountains. There a French hair stylist called frequently, did Jackie's hair in a fetching "Parisian nymph" style. Then, reclining on deep-cushioned divans, she would dine with princes of the royal court at low Moroccan tables while Andalusian music trilled a background...