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...little impulse leads to another. Police stormed into the campus of Brasilia to arrest five students wanted for "subversion." The cops cracked heads as they moved from classroom to lab. Rising in Congress to protest the police conduct, Márcio Moreira Alves, one of the few remaining opposition Deputies, proposed a public boycott of the Independence Day military parades. Duly insulted by this, the Ministers of the Army, Air Force and Navy then moved, with President Costa e Silva's assent, to cashier Alves for abusing "his political rights." To some observers, it looked like the first step...
...year tax exemptions on some land and various other lures to attract settlers to the country's largely undeveloped interior. The drive has also attracted hundreds of Grileiros (land grabbers), who have come and gone, buying up acreage for virtually nothing. Since Brazil built the city of Brasilia out in the vast wilderness for its capital, however, the land buying has developed into a full-fledged boom...
...highway from Brasilia to the Amazonian city of Belem that was completed in 1960 has opened up hundreds of square miles of virgin land. This fact, coupled with visions of towering skyscrapers rising from the freshly turned red earth, has brought speculators and just plain land seekers flocking from West Germany, Japan, the U.S. and other countries. They have bought up land for as little as 70 an acre from private owners, sometimes reselling it for as much as $2 an acre. Around the Hotel Nacional bar in Brasilia, some speculators regale foreigners with Bunyanesque tales of undiscovered mineral riches...
Useful Guide. Toynbee has a very human eye for detail-but with a scholarly difference. Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil, pleases him because it has escaped the "geometer"-the builder who lays out cities as grids. But it also reminds him that "chessboard Babylon was so depressing for Nebuchadnezzar's highland wife that he had to build her an artificial knobbly mountain-the famous 'Hanging Gardens.' " Noting that Brasilia's TV tower dominates the city while the main body of the cathedral is subterranean, Toynbee observes that "technology is the dominant element in present...
Died. George F. Ferris, 65, master builder and boss of Raymond International Inc. construction firm since 1953; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A specialist in the big and bold, Raymond International built the Strategic Air Command bases in Spain, the major government buildings in Brasilia, Chesapeake Bay's awesome 171-mile bridge-tunnel and, most recently, in combine with several other firms, the vast complex of airfields and harbors in Thailand and South Viet...