Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brooched Subject. In Piedade, Brazil, Pastor Francisco Antônio de Oliveira preached against feminine vanity and feminine adornments, was pelted with earrings and brooches...
...Aerovias Panama Airways asks only $260. Aerolineas Peruanas sells a Santiago-Miami two-way ticket for $276.50; Pan Am and Panagra are required to charge $678. To top it all off, U.S. airlines are limited by local regulations as to the number of seats that they can sell. Brazil restricts Pan Am to 430 seats a week (a figure set years ago) while major Brazilian airlines, Varig and Real, run without quotas. Some ten years ago Pan Am and Panagra were two out of nine companies servicing Latin America; today the total...
...helper; he got paid for it, and he needed the money. But it scarcely seemed a suitable way of life for an artist on a Buenos Aires Contvention grant. Tired of Lima, he set off over the Andes and made his way down Madre de Dios River toward the Brazil-Peru-Bolivia frontier. Unarmed, and with only a Roman Catholic lay missionary as companion, he finally pushed right off the known map into the green unknown. Three days out, the two found themselves surrounded by naked Amarakaires...
Back to the Streets. The revival came in 1954, when Juracy took over. He came out strongly for "stimulation of foreign investment." For the "lunch-pailers" he plugged "free, autonomous trade unions." Brazil, he said, must be a "cordial, independent ally of the U.S." By 1955 the campaign was taking effect; in that year's election U.D.N. made a good showing against Kubitschek, who won on a minority of the vote, edged by with 3,077,400 votes to the U.D.N...
...last week's vote tally, U.D.N. harvested more than 3,000,000 votes, nearly enough to have won the presidency three years ago. What about 1960? Juracy shrugs off the idea as "premature." His big aim right now is to put an end to Brazil's rigged economy. But there will be no letup in the campaign for votes. "We are returning to the streets and to direct contact with the people. Nobody ever loses trusting the people...