Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salute one day last week heralded the arrival of a green leather-bound volume at the opening of Brazil's Congress. The book contained President Juscelino Kubitschek's 294-page state of the nation message. Its tone, as a House of Deputies secretary droned it out, in summary, was proud and hopeful...
...Time for Masking. For all Dior's success, Paris couture in general is in parlous economic shape. Eastern European markets (except for exiled royalty) have dried up. Currency and import restrictions have cut purchases from Britain, Spain, Scandinavia, Brazil and Argentina. Since war's end eleven major houses have closed (among them: Molyneux, Lelong, Paquin, Worth, Schiaparelli). The big houses make their money on sales to the U.S. and abroad, or on sidelines-perfume, hosiery, etc. But most depend on private individual customers, who even at Dior account for more than 60% of the total dress sales. Nowadays...
...Victoria's reign, but man could always make his own. and give his own reasons. The "rainbow bridge" (1 mile, 1.705 yds.) across the Tay estuary, with its curving, spidery iron girders, was the wonder of an age of railways and engineering. European princes and the Emperor of Brazil visited the marvel. Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds trundled safely across. The railway company that built it (between 1871 and 1877) said it was "a structure worthy of this enlightened age." General Ulysses S. Grant, who on a ceremonial visit was obliged to walk halfway across, said...
...more than a month the 19 squad members have been hailed as heroes of democracy as well as sport. On a European tour when revolution broke out at home, they played out their scheduled games and then, defying orders to return to Hungary, flew to Brazil to take on Rio's Flamengo squad (TIME, Jan. 28). Crowds of 100,000-plus turned out for the games, and the Honved team lived well on its $10,000 per match...
...hantan (hard) or membek (soft) -that is the question every Hamlet of Brazil's Urubu Indians must try to answer. Hantan men spend their lives out hunting in the jungle along the Gurupi River; membek fellows stay at home with the girls, which makes them even membeker. The girls like their lovers to be tough, but only because it's more fun tempting them to become membek. And anyone who succumbs to such temptation is liable to be turned into a toad after death. It's all a big problem, the Urubus assured Anthropologist Francis Huxley...