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...year of work We've gone from hut to palace . . . Brasilia! New destiny...
...first national capital built from scratch since India's New Delhi 30 years ago. Brasilia will not be ready until 1961. But on April 21, 1960. President Juscelino Kubitschek will transfer his government to Brasilia. He wants to rule from there for the last nine months of his term...
...Dream. The dream of a new capital to replace old Rio precedes Brazil's independence from Portugal in 1822. But it is uniquely Kubitschek's accomplishment, for until he set up the government-owned Novacap corporation to do the job. Brasilia was all talk. "We must occupy our country, march to the west, turn our backs to the sea, and stop staring fixedly at the ocean-as if thinking of departing," says Kubitschek...
...conference was so successful that Brazilian delegates urged a return engagement in their new capital city Brasilia, when it is finished. Belgium, Germany, and Italy suggested a 1959 conference in Europe with a preliminary meeting next year. For the week's discussion had demonstrated that capitalism has more to offer the world than cash. Its message: through technology, efficient management, research and the brand of valor that McGill University's Dr. David McCord Wright called the "energy to venture into uncertainty," competitive business can widen the distribution of goods, realize new sources of profit and do both...
General Polly, who modestly estimates that the project would cost $190 million, wants to model the new capital-to be called Brasilia-after Washington, D.C. For scoffers, the General has two reminders : 1) 41 years ago Brazilian dreamers planned the model city which is today the lively, bustling reality of Bello Horizonte; 2) Golánia, the model capital of the state of Goiaz, was only a gleam in a city planner's eye five years...