Word: branco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week commitment to serve as senior scientist aboard the Alpha Helix, a sophisticated research vessel operated by California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From Manaus, Williams headed the Alpha Helix upstream for the expedition's shore camp at the confluence of the Rio Negro and the Rio Branco. The Negro, at high-water level during this time of year, "looked like Chesapeake Bay," says Williams. Along the shore, trees and plants were steeped in 30 ft. of the river's opaque water. As the Alpha Helix moved along looking for a landing site, Williams noticed that there...
...preferred to flock to the beaches. The solemn salute of gunfire every ten minutes from Rio's forts went largely unnoticed. Thus, followed to the very end by the unpopularity that had been his lot in three years as an honest but uncharismatic President of Brazil, Humberto Castello Branco last week went to his grave at the age of 66, victim of a plane crash in the fifth month of his retirement. Said former Planning Minister Roberto Campos in a eulogy: "He had an aversion to easy promises and theatricalized results. He deeply dreaded creating false hopes...
Faith in Patience. When Castello Branco and current President Arthur da Costa e Silva (TIME cover, April 21) organized the 1964 military coup that toppled Leftist Joao Goulart, Brazil needed even more than truth. Communists and corruption were everywhere. The cost of living was climbing at the fantastic annual rate of 144% in Goulart's last year, and the Brazilian cruzeiro was barely worth the paper it was printed...
...Castello Branco knew how to give orders and have them carried out, but had difficulty in making them liked or understood. Within a year after his rise to power, his methods had cost his government its earlier popularity, and the doughty little ex-general withdrew even further into himself. "A soldier learns patience," he once told a visitor. "I am a patient man." Prohibited from succeeding himself, he willingly left the limelight after Costa e Silva's inauguration as President in March. He spent most of his time with his family, was seen now and then at the opera...
Died. Humberto Castello Branco, 66, former President of Brazil (see THE WORLD...