Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carol and Magda fled Rumania under a hail of Nazi bullets. They lived quietly in Mexico for a while, then went to Brazil. There Magda took ill with pernicious anemia, and doctors thought she was dying. In their Copacabana Palace suite in 1947, Carol at long last married Elena Lupescu, whom he proclaimed Princess Elena. When Magda recovered, they went to live, a portly, aging couple in Estoril in Portugal, haven of exiled royalties. There last week, with Magda beside him and few to mourn him, Carol, 59, died of a stroke...
...Janeiro, Brazil awarded former Secretary of State Dean Acheson the Order of the Southern Cross...
...with soaring food prices, shrinking pay and government corruption, the people of São Paulo, Brazil's No. 2 city (pop. 2,500,000), rose in wrath last week and repudiated their political bosses. In a municipal election that was supposed to be a rubber-stamping of the government's choice for mayor, they voted 2-to-1 for a rank outsider. Then they launched a wave of sudden strikes that threatened to paralyze the whole metropolis...
...brilliant religious murals in the town's new Roman Catholic church. Surprisingly, the paintings were the work of an avowed freethinker and Communist. But the 9,850 townspeople would have no other artist than Candido Portinari, 49, who rose from a lowly birthplace near Batatais to become Brazil's best painter and the area's most admired native...
...Other signers: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay. The agreements provide for U.S. arms aid as authorized under the Mutual Security Agency's $51.6 million program for Latin America...