Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next year recuperating from a bullet-shattered leg, then went on to become a President-maker, a Cabinet minister for 12 years; he spent four distinguished years in Washington as Ambassador to the U.S., served once as U.N. General Assembly president. Rebel Prestes went on to become chief of Brazil's Communist Party, the hemisphere's biggest. Last week, while thousands watched a TV interview, old opponents Aranha and Prestes embraced and Prestes called Aranha "one of the best possible presidential candidates," while Aranha proclaimed his "fondness and solidarity" for Prestes...
...proud, burly, white-thatched Oswaldo Aranha presumably has one last chance at his lifelong ambition: to sit in Catete Palace, Brazil's White House. If he does not make it in the October 1960 presidential election he will be too old afterward. Last week, in his frantic bid, Aranha seemed ready to toss away a lifetime record of liberalism, internationalism, Western Hemisphere solidarity...
...collected some controversial jewelry from Milwaukee Playboy Robert Schlesinger, kissed the Marquis Alfonso de Portago goodbye before he raced his Ferrari off to death in last year's Mille Miglia in Italy. Linda learned a lot, but last week she proved she was still no match for Brazil's brand of sportive millionaires, who rake in profits of 30% or 40% a year, laugh at income taxes and still have time to dream up practical jokes...
...Sight. In a Rome nightclub two months ago with Brazil's metals-rich Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, Linda lost a jade earring. Sympathetically, the 41-year-old Baby suggested a trip to Hong Kong for a replacement, and off they flew. When their shopping was done, they decided to go on around the world to Rio. Linda collected a few baubles along the way-including a $4,000 diamond "engagement ring...
Before the wedding, Linda made a quick trip home to Mexico from Rio. As soon as her plane was out of sight, Baby called in the press and, reported the Brazil Herald,'"told reporters that his affair with Linda Christian was definitely at an end." Later, Baby put his position more bluntly. "I made no promises," he said. "I just said we were engaged so I could get her into the same hotel suites with me." Linda dashed back, spent several days chasing Baby by phone, then made a face-saving retreat to a film festival at Uruguay...