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...night last October, police knocked on the door of a modest house in the back-country capital of Belo Horizonte. A scrawny, nervous man in pajamas opened the door. He was Olimpio Ferraz de Carvalho, a retired colonel of the Brazilian army, and his name was high on the list of some 22 officers and men in the area suspected of being key agents in Communist infiltration in the Brazilian army. The pro-Communist editor of an influential army journal, until finally booted from the job, Ferraz de Carvalho was president of the Communist-front Committee for World Peace...
Tipped off last week that the Belo Horizonte peace ' movement planned a quiet meeting to re-elect the colonel as president, police called in army men and set a joint trap. When the colonel scurried in to join five former leaders of the outlawed Communist Party, the cops arrested the Reds and closed in on the colonel. Shouting "I will not leave here alive," he fell back. The cops, not too sure about collaring colonels, also fell back. For three hours they stood guard until the local garrison commander was finally found at an afternoon movie. "Remove...
...resolutely battling inflation, the government periodically announces dire anti-profiteering measures. In December, it said that people's courts, where high-markup shopkeepers could be tried by juries of irate housewives, would be set up; the courts have yet to start operation. Last week, after price riots in Belo Horizonte (TIME, Feb. 18), Price Boss Benjamin Scares Cabello announced the newest plan: a chain of 24 government-run stores in all state capitals to "sell everything 15 to 25% cheaper." Said Cabello: "We'll knock prices down all right! We'll modernize the trade system of Brazil...
...little valley, Congonhas seethed more in carnival than worship. Trucks rumbled in to disgorge batches of 40 white-suited pilgrims. Faint after bumping over the rough roads, the country folk pressed into the stalls along the Rua Feliciano Mendes for coffee. Because a big-time operator from Belo Horizonte had rented every room in town and sublet them to prostitutes at $10 a day, the pilgrims slept in the streets, in the churchyard or in trucks...
...York World's Fair and in the Library of Congress, and one-man shows in Detroit and Manhattan gave him a U.S. reputation. But things have not always gone well with him at home. He painted the Via Sacra on the walls of a modern church near Belo Horizonte, which Architect Oscar Niemeyer, friend and fellow Communist, designed. The archbishop refused to consecrate the church (TIME, May 13, 1946). Says Portinari: "The priests don't like my way of expressing, sacred things. They want Virgins that look like Ingrid Bergman and Christs like Robert Taylor...