Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Uruguay's soccer team, which won the World Championship in Rio de Janeiro in an upset victory over Brazil, 2-1, before 170,000 torcedores...
...moreover, compares favorably with the picture only 20 years ago, when Machado ruled in Cuba, Gómez in Venezuela, Ibáñez in Chile and Leguía in Peru. It does not compare unfavorably with the picture a dozen years ago, when Vargas was dictator in Brazil, Ubico in Guatemala, Martinez in El Salvador, Carías in Honduras, Benavides in Peru, Busch in Bolivia, and Terra in Uruguay...
Portugal, Ireland, Brazil, South Africa and Colombia were all on hand for the first time. Germany and Yugoslavia (but none of the Soviet satellites) were back for the first time since the war. From the U.S. had come a retrospective showing of 48 paintings by Seascapist John Marin, along with samplings of six younger-and lesser-U.S. artists (TIME, June 12). Surveying that bewildering array, one British critic moaned: "They have collected too much art. Too many impressions are fighting each other...
...bicho, Brazil's popular numbers game, was started in the reign of Pedro II (1841-89) to encourage attendance at a public zoo. Nowadays it pays off on numbers drawn daily in great secrecy by the game's racketeer bankers. The numbers on which wager-loving Brazilians gamble represent 25 different animals. A sequence of four consecutive double numbers is assigned to each animal, ranging from the eagle (01, 02, 03, 04) to the cow (97, 98, 99, 00). Odds depend on whether a player stakes his bet just on the animal-any one of four possibilities...
Hungry men from Las Palmas are the most picturesque but not the most numerous immigrant group to accept Venezuela's warmhearted postwar welcome. All told, some 60,000 Europeans have migrated to Venezuela in the last three years. Of the Latin American countries, only Argentina and Brazil have taken more. When its smaller population (4,490,000) is taken into account, Venezuela's welcome has been heartiest...