Word: brasilia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standards, Brazil's Highway BR-14 is certainly no Indiana turnpike or New York State Thruway. Meandering 1,350 miles from Belém to Brasilia through the jungles and scrub of Brazil's wild interior, it is barely two lanes wide; the surface is dust in the dry season, mud in the wet, and some of the ruts could swallow a Volkswagen alive. Yet in the eyes of former President Juscelino Kubitschek, who built the road between 1956 and 1960, BR-14 is "the highway of dreams" for underdeveloped Brazil, and the means to "a new civilization...
...sprouting every few miles. "If I don't pass a certain stretch of road for two or three weeks," says one road engineer, "I almost always find a new cluster of shacks there when I get back." Cidade Presidente Kennedy, founded in April 1964 700 miles north of Brasilia, already has a population of 1,000. Araguaina, which got its start in 1958 as a road-construction camp 500 miles north of Brasilia, is now up to 8,000 people, has its own branch of the Bank of Brazil and will soon have a $1,600,000 factory that...
...Brazilian military men who rose up 19 months ago against corruption and Communism last week rose up once again. In Brasilia's Planalto Palace, President Humberto Castello Branco marched to a microphone and made the announcement. "The revolution is alive," he said. "It will not retreat. It has promoted reforms and will continue to undertake them. However, agitators are menacing the revolutionary order precisely when the revolution is trying to give the people practice in the discipline of exercising democracy...
...party was allowed to campaign, spurred on by his behind-the-scene direction from Paris. Its victory constituted an almost unbearable provocation for Brazil's military. At one point last week, army units went on combat alert across the country, and in front of the War Ministry in Brasilia appeared a quickly scrawled sign: THEY SHALL NOT RETURN...
Whether Castello Branco will actually send such proposals to Congress, and whether Congress can be pressured into passing them, remains to be seen. What is clear is that Juscelino Kubitschek, the man who built the new inland capital of Brasilia and thrilled the country with a thousand other dreams, has re-emerged as the major political force in Brazil...