Word: bahia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...navy and air ministers-to follow his lead and give way to what was obviously the popular will. They wanted to know in advance one key fact: Who's going to be the Premier? The man most agreeable to Kubitschek and to Brazil's key governors was Bahia's plump and placid but steely-nerved Governor Juracy Magalhaes, a reserve general, and head of Brazil's major conservative party. Said Juracy: "If you want me to serve, and there is no one else, I will...
...Amazon and Paraná are two of the world's largest sedimentary basins-together nearly 2,000,000 sq. mi. But of potential oceans of oil, only traces have been found; last year Brazil produced only 30% of its requirements from an old field at Bahia...
...Down. According to Estrada, no similar oriental-looking objects have been found elsewhere in Central or South America. His theory is that a small group of people from across the Pacific found their way to Ecuador, perhaps were shipwrecked near Bahia and founded a colony there. Some of their imported cultural traits, such as a liking for headrests and peaked gables, persisted for a few generations before dying...
...business. He has interested himself in Ecuador's northern coastal region because of vaguely oriental objects previously found there. In 1956, after learning diggers' techniques from Archaeologists Clifford Evans and Betty Meggers of the U.S.'s Smithsonian Institution, he began concentrating on the coastal town of Bahia de Caraquez where, according to ancient legends, a people called the Caras landed from...
...seven planets. The vibrations are vital." With Camus' wife, the master was killed during World War II. Camus today will not even reveal his name, but includes an aging "master figure" in each of his films (the present one is an old Negro he came upon in Bahia...