Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some back-home newspapers blasted the conference. "Fiasco!" snorted Brazil's Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand. But reactions often combined realism with optimism. In Uruguay, the daily El Plata joked about the U.S. reluctance to go in for Latin American giveaways. "The U.S. knows only too well the similarity between Latin American economic administration and sacks with holes or barrels without bottoms." On vacation in Newport, President Eisenhower examined the conference's results, reflected most delegates' reactions by calling them "an outstanding statement of the principles and objectives of inter-American economic cooperation...
...born the son of a tough coal prospector in Brazil, Ind., who tested the quality of coal by biting into the ore. When Jimmy was four, John Hoffa died with a coating of coal dust on his lungs. Viola Riddle Hoffa, mother of two girls and two boys, was as tough as her husband. Says Jimmy's brother Bill: "She was always telling us, and she made us listen, that Dad always kept his word . . . We had rules in our house. If your mother or father told you to do something, you did it. And they only told...
...dizzy, spendthrift economic policy. "If Argentina today had the foreign trade it had in 1943," said Aramburu, "it would be the first country of South America." Instead, workers continue to demand wage hikes without boosting productivity, creating a "vicious circle" of rising prices. Unlike Brazil, which is developing "great industries with modern techniques and foreign financial aid." too many Argentines still spout "wornout slogans about nationalism, about the oligarchs, about statism. We are slipping backwards every...
People just wouldn't believe him, decided the law professor, and so for nearly a year he kept his little secret. Finally he let the word slip out to a friend. Last week all Brazil was abuzz about the reluctant claim of João de Freitas Guimaraes. 48. a wealthy, respected professor of Roman law at Santos' Catholic University. Did the professor really take an hour-long whirl through outer space in a flying saucer...
...Essen-and dozens of other Krupp plants throughout Germany-are glowing with activity. Amid the magnificent trappings of the Villa Hügel, his 200-room ancestral mansion above the valley of the Ruhr, Alfried Krupp regally receives visiting heads of state such as King Paul of Greece, Brazil's President Kubitschek, Cabinet ministers and businessmen, extends his hospitality to men who once vowed to destroy him. In a gesture that symbolizes the rehabilitation of the Krupp empire and name, the U.S., which has long refused to admit convicted war criminals, last fortnight granted Alfried Krupp a visa...