Word: brasilia
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KUBITSCHEK'S BRASILIA...
...Brasilia's patron saint...
...from swivel chairs to paper clips. In the wilderness of Brazil's central plateau, planes touched down on a new, jet-length runway every two minutes with Tempelhof-like precision. This week, before a crowd of 200,000, President Juscelino Kubitschek will officially move the Brazilian government into Brasilia, his $500 million new capital. Boasts Kubitschek: "We have turned our back on the sea and penetrated to the heartland of the nation. Now the people realize their strength...
...Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs; Monsignor Acacio Coussa, Assessor for the Holy Congregation for the Oriental Church; and Monsignor Giuseppe Ferretto, Secretary of the Sacred College. The foreign favorites: Monsignor Juan Landázuri Ricketts, Archbishop of Lima, and Monsignor Jose Newton de Almeida Batista, Archbishop of Brasilia. (The Pope may have decided to withhold Batista's formal elevation until his new archdiocese buildings are dedicated...
...Brasilia the two Presidents issued a platitude-clouded statement reaffirming hemispheric solidarity, then flew down to Rio and a picture-book welcome. At Galeao Airport, the peripatetic President boarded a white-hulled launch for the ceremonial trip across the beautiful harbor to the city. As his launch passed a line of 14 freshly painted naval vessels,* the crews raised their white caps high and gave a traditional Brazilian navy greeting-seven "Vivas." An informal flotilla of small craft trailed in Ike's wake, a swarm of helicopters chop-chopped overhead, and along the seawall a long formation of white...