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...blackened by the sun of Brazil, Camus toasted his friends in the nation's new capital city just before he left. "How I love you," he cried between dollops of Scotch. "Here in Brazil there is no hate, only love. Here we are all brothers." Just then, Brasilia's power failed, and waiters made their way through the dark to light candles. For some reason, Marcel Camus did not shoot the scene...
...airports are also wrestling with the immense technological problems of the jet age. The hungry jets have made obsolete the ubiquitous airport fuel truck; Idlewild, Seattle, London, O'Hare and Brasilia are all installing underground fueling systems. Hong Kong Airport has solved its space problem by building a runway 8,350 feet into Hong Kong bay. Miami has a new $350,000 radar approach system. Near San Francisco, the Federal Aviation Agency is building an ultramodern, $5,000,000 radar air-traffic control center, whose Remington Rand electronic brain will track all aircraft in a three-state zone. Hardest...
...TIME article of June 20, carrying the story on Brazilian lands, stated: "Pan American Airways Vice President Humphrey Toomey bought 105 acres just outside Brasilia for $1,800 six months ago. Now he is selling it in quarter-acre lots, expects to get $156,000." We strongly urge that a correction be made, since we and not Mr. Toomey are in the subdivision business, and we know for a fact that Mr. Toomey has never been in the subdivision business...
President Juscelino Kubitschek. creator of Brasilia, was enraged. To the Health Minister he snapped, "If you don't return, you'd better resign." To his Labor Minister he said: "Better show up here soon." When there were still only five Ministers for a Cabinet session, Kubitschek passed the word to all hooky players: "I'm accepting resignations." Back came the Cabinet-eight by week's end. Kubitschek pressured the Senate into returning May 16, ordered every Institute president to the capital within eight days, and decreed a full eight-hour working day for Brasilia...
...hotels already built in his mind, the world's No. 1 innkeeper, Conrad Hilton, arrived in Brazil, seemed in high good humor over his venture into what is, for his enterprises, virgin territory. On his Brazilian expedition, Hilton broke ground for hotels in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, made plans for construction of another in São Paulo. Total cost: about $21 million. A Brazilian corporation, partly financed by British interests, will build the hotels for operation by Hilton under his customary leaseback terms: a third of net profits will go to Hilton Hotels International, two-thirds...