Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crusading years as a newspaper editor and political reformer, Cafe Filho, who is now 60, never took a dishonest penny. Once, in answer to a bribery attempt, he coolly struck a match to a proffered check. Exiled, jailed, beaten, he became Brazil's Vice President in 1951, and President when Getulio Vargas committed suicide...
...treat a pair of heart attacks and a stroke that left his left side paralyzed. When his salary, his savings and his term ran out, a friendly doctor treated him free. "I took massage and special exercises," says Cafe Filho. "I forced my muscles to move again." In 1956 Brazil's Varig airline flew him to the U.S. free for treatment by Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White...
...Both dedications, inspired by two 17th century French saints, require Vatican approval, and entail a preparatory period by faithful Catholics of daily Mass and special instructions in church doctrine. Dedicated by their governments to the Sacred Heart: Ecuador (the first, in 1873), Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil, Peru, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Malta and the Philippines. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart: Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ireland, Belgium and Spain...
Behind the lower U.S. price of a can of drip grind or a jar of instant lies a revolutionary new Brazilian coffee policy. For years Brazil operated as though it grew all the coffee in the world, refused to sell for less than its own pegged price, watched its markets and export income dwindle. Last year Brazil pulled out the peg, let prices seek their level, began selling hard. By August, coffee sales were setting records, and by last week the first two major effects could be plainly measured...
...women's half, the story was more of the same. In the first all-foreign women's final since 1937, Brazil's Maria Bueno, 19, the dark-haired Wimbledon champion, beat Christine Truman, Britain's power-hitting six-footer. It was the first time in the 79-year history of the U.S. championships that no American appeared in either title match...