Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned jujitsu." At 22, with daughter Ana Maria about to be born, he got admitted to Rio's Escola de Bellas Artes, dropped out a couple of times, managed to end up with a degree. Then he went to work for the man who did most to get Brazil's great modern architecture movement into full swing-Lúcio Costa...
Commissioned in 1936 to design a building for Brazil's Ministry of Education, Architect Costa summoned Le Corbusier from France, surrounded "the greatest man in modern architecture" with a group of students who have since become Brazil's best. Among them: Afonso (Museum of Modern Art) Reidy, Jorge (University City) Moreira, Niemeyer. Then Costa pulled out of the project after a series of disagreements. The others elected Novice Niemeyer as their leader, and their building, faced with blue, louver-like sun-breakers, became a famed architectural milestone...
KAISER, WILLYS passenger cars are rolling again-in South America. In Argentina, Henry Kaiser this year expects to turn out 2,500 cars similar to his 1955 Manhattans. In Brazil, Kaiser's Willys Motors plans to produce 20,000 passenger cars a year by 1961, will get $2,500,000 loan from World Bank's International Finance Corp...
...Brazil is a case in point. Brazil got into a fiscal mess with inflationary policies, and did little to reform because officials thought they could always count on the U.S. Export-Import Bank for loans. Eventually, after 63 authorized loans totaling $656 million, Brazil had to go to the Monetary Fund. There a coolly competent professional international staff delivered a stern lecture, exacted a promise of reform, gave a small drawing account of $37.5 million in the hope that Brazil would go and sin no more. If Brazil had had to take this lecture from the U.S., the howl...
Died. The Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (nee Grace Elvina Hinds of Decatur, Ala.), 80, daughter of a onetime U.S. Minister to Brazil, second wife of the late Marquess Curzon, who was British Viceroy and Governor General of India (1898-1905) and Foreign Secretary (1919-24); near Dover, England. First female recipient of the Grand Cross of the British Empire (conferred on her in 1922 for war work), Lady Curzon was a significant arc in titled circles, an owner of race horses whose brown and pink colors were once familiar at Ascot and Newmarket, and a friend of Lady Randolph Churchill...