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...they do not raise the passions that its heroes do. Last week, as Brazil almost dissolved into pandemonium, the cause was not politics but soccer. When its team had defeated Italy 4-1 to win the World Cup in Mexico City, the country erupted in what Jornal do Brasil bannered as THE BIGGEST CARNAVAL IN HISTORY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Something to Cheer About | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...less than two years, five of the best-known U.S. passenger ships have been laid up indefinitely: American Export's Atlantic, Independence and Constitution and Moore-McCormack's Brasil and Argentina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipping: Requiem for Heavyweights | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...ANDREW WILLIAMS' MAGIC LANTERN SHOW COMPANY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Music is the main magic, since Andy's guests are Aretha Franklin, Roger Miller, Sergio Mendes and Brasil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 2, 1969 | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...Presumably, Alves will be one of them-though the man who touched off the whole furor was no where to be found. Once they were allowed to resume publication, newspapers gave the story banner play, but they understandably shied away from overt editorial comment. Rio's Jornal do Brasil, however, printed a wry weather report that bore no relation to actual meteorological conditions. "Weather black," it said. "Temperature suffocating. The air is unbreathable. The country is being swept by a strong wind." With parliamentary democracy and the rule of law temporarily suspended once again, the wind of popular resentment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: CRACKDOWN IN BRAZIL | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...week that seemingly insignificant act led to some startlingly drastic consequences for South America's biggest, most populous nation. The government imposed censorship on the country's radio and press, put the armed forces on alert, sent tanks rumbling down Rio de Janeiro's broad Avenida Brasil and, finally, suspended Brazil's constitution and shut down its Congress-both indefinitely. . Nest of Torturers. Alves, 32, is the chief parliamentary critic of the military strongmen behind Brazil's President Arthur da Costa e Silva. Last year, he wrote Tortures and the Tortured, a study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: CRACKDOWN IN BRAZIL | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

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