Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft and pleasant life turned out not to be the satisfying life. Last August George, Marjorie and three of their children chucked the pools and parties (and George's Ford agency) for spiritual values. Last week, 6,000 miles from home, they were battling the jungles of Brazil's Paraná State as part of a new colony of Protestant missionaries who work the land to support their mission...
...southeastern Brazil last week came a strange tale of Stone Age savages living furtive lives only a few score miles from modern civilization...
Last week Argentina, Brazil and Chile were each caught in one phase or another...
...Brazil was in the third phase. Buckling under labor pressure, President Juscelino Kubitschek offered Brazilians the merriest Christmas in history-a 60% increase in minimum wages, and a 30% pay boost for the army and government employees, effective immediately. Playing Santa Claus would raise Brazil's record budget deficit of $285 million, but the news of the proposed wage hike ended the recent rash of cost-of-living riots (TIME...
...years in the Vatican foreign service-most of the time in Latin America. From 1922 to 1928 he served in Warsaw; then, with the rank of archbishop, he was sent as papal nuncio to Bolivia. After posts in several Central American countries, Pope Pius XII appointed him nuncio to Brazil in 1946, where he is remembered for his warmth, wit and sharp judgment...