Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told that the mad Emperor Caligula once appointed a horse to administer an imperial province. The people of Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo (population over 3,000,000) have easily matched Caligula's choice of public servant; they have elected a female rhinoceros as mayor...
Such mass whimsy, of course, might augur poorly for the future of the shaky democracy in Brazil. The victory of the rhinoceros "represents a phenomenon of the greatest sociological importance," one Brazilian sociologist said. "We are on the threshold of revolt." One hopes that if revolt does come, it will continue in as good humored a fashion...
...include Africa as well as Latin America. Latin Americans, citing a world market of about 39 million bags v. production of about 51 million, wanted the Africans to join them in last year's pact, but the Africans were more interested in bigger markets than in price. Brazil's selling blitz cut sharply into African sales, persuaded Africans to sign...
...Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek found the second major effect of the new coffee policy in the latest Brazilian foreign trade figures. Last year Brazil's balance of payments deficit was $307 million; this year the experts figured the deficit would be closer to $400 million. But the booming coffee sales are bringing unexpected millions, and last week, by conservative reckoning, the 1959 deficit promised to be $200 million or less; Kubitschek & Co. even talk of a surplus. Turned down three months ago when he applied for approval from the International Monetary Fund for a $300 million bailout...
...Brazil's booming industrial center of Sâo Paulo (pop. 3,650,000) likes to boast of itself as the locomotive that pulls all the other Brazilian states. Ten years ago Industrialist Francisco ("Cicillo") Matarazzo Sobrinho* decided it was high time Sâo Paulo got up enough steam to become a center of the arts as well. Stoked by Matarazzo's enthusiasm and backing, the city fathers and state officials financed a multimillion-dollar series of exhibition halls in the city's suburbs, organized a biennial show of international art designed to rival Venice's. Last week Sâo Paulo...