Word: brasil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bustling 32-acre plant outside the Brazilian town of Sao Bernardo do Campo last week, coveralled workmen proudly rolled a pair of shiny new compact cars off the assembly line. Hardly had they done so when William Max Pearce, 49, general manager of Willys-Overland do Brasil, announced his plans to send the two cars-the first production models of the new Aero-Willys 2600-to Paris for next month's international auto exposition. Pearce and Willys had reason to be excited. The Aero-Willys is Brazilian from taillights to engine block-the first car to be completely designed...
...Goulart asked the Supreme Electoral Tribunal for a plebiscite within 30 days to restore the powers of the President. The country's military brass now gave Goulart their blessing, and it seemed likely that the voters would do the same. Said Rio's respected Jornal do Brasil: "The head must come back to its place. A true power must occupy the vacuum which now exists...
...able to do things better with our own hands." With these nationalistic words, Brazilian Financier Celso Rocha Miranda, 43, took control of Panair do Brasil away from Pan American World Airways. Though Pan Am retained its 30% holdings in Panair, Miranda bought up the other 70%, mostly from Panair's Brazilian directors, for an estimated $5,000,000. A self-made millionaire-he is Brazil's biggest insurance broker-elegant Celso Rocha Miranda has ordered eight French Caravelle medium-range jets to put his new enterprise on a competitive footing with rival Brazilian airlines Varig and Real...
...country, in view of the dissemination by these agencies of baseless stories of sensationalist or alarming character." The order called for "energetic steps for definitive repression" if the charges were true. Fidel Castro's news agency, Prensa Latina, cheered the order. But the independent Jornal do Brasil saw it as a clear threat to a free press: "If the President thinks he is going to take the press by the throat, order investigations right and left, silence newspapers without resistance, he is very much mistaken...
...Quadros received, or rather dismissed, President Kennedy's special envoy deserves sharp criticism from all Brazilians." The criticism spread to include the whole subject of Quadros' headlong rush to "neutralism" during his six weeks in office. Wrote the influential Jornal do Brasil, heretofore one of Quadros' staunchest supporters: "Quadros, who in his campaign stressed the impossibility of ignoring the importance and existence of Red China, now appears to ignore the importance and existence of the U.S. What is the idea...