Word: brasilia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great city is not necessarily beautiful or well-planned. Venice and Florence are delights to the eye; yet neither has been a great city since the Renaissance. Brasilia, one of the most elaborately designed of modern cities, is also one of the deadliest. An impressive physical setting is essential to a city's greatness, but by itself that is not enough. Take Pittsburgh: its natural setting, at the junction of two rivers, is magnificent. Man botched the job of doing anything with it. Grand avenues and impressive architecture, though necessary to a great city, do not satisfy the equation...
...there is little suspense connected with Mexico's forthcoming presidential elections, there was none at all as Brazil last week formally chose General Emilio Garrastazú Médici, 63, as its head of state. For the past month, government printers in Brasilia, the capital, have been engraving Médici's name on official documents. New ambassadors have been arriving with credentials already addressed to him. Three weeks ago, the Shah of Iran even cabled congratulations to him. Sitting as an electoral college, Congress last week finally made it official by voting him into office...
Nelson Rockefeller swooped down into the sparkling capital city of Brasilia last week amid smiles and cordiality. A bevy of schoolchildren from the American School sang The Star-Spangled Banner, and beaming Brazilian dignitaries, headed by Foreign Minister José Magálhaes Pinto, listened approvingly to Rocky's arrival statement, made in Spanish-accented Portuguese. Not a demonstrator was in sight, and even the blue-clad security police were by and large inconspicuous...
...jobs for everybody-thus preventing it from becoming a mere bedroom for an existing city. A new town can be a satellite city, close to an already developed metropolitan area, or a wholly new urban center erected on virgin land in much the same way that Chandigarh, Canberra and Brasilia were built. For social and economic as well as political reasons, U.S. planners say that the towns should provide a population mix of wealthy, middle class and poor, of black and white and of commuters and resident workers...
Last week, just before the issue came to a vote, Alves rose to implore his colleagues to refuse "to turn over to a small group of extremists the cleaver for their beheading." One by one the 369 assembled Congressmen left their seats in Brasilia's modern Chamber of Deputies to deliver the ballots. When the count was in, the government had suffered a stunning defeat. Nearly 100 of Costa e Silva's followers crossed party lines to vote with the opposition. By a margin of 216 to 141, the deputies quashed the government's motion to lift...