Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while a member of the Higher Institute of Brazilian Studies, he published Nationalism in Brazilian Reality, which questioned the wisdom of complete nationalization of Brazil's petroleum resources. The book failed to please extremists on either the left or the right, and touched off a heated debate in the course of which Jaguaribe resigned from the Institute. The Institute was later abolished by the 1964 revolutionary forces because of alleged Marxist control...
...cardinals will raise the Sacred College to 103, highest total in history, and contribute further to the internationalization begun by Pius XII. The red hats will be bestowed on men from 21 countries, including Ceylon, Brazil, Upper Volta, Algeria, and the Union of South Africa. Only six of the appointments went to Italy, whose representation in the enlarged college will be reduced to an alltime...
...buffalo and the tsetse fly in order to plant sugar. They still have not solved one problem: at night, hippopotamuses clomp out of the nearby Zambesi River, bed down on tender sugar shoots and crush them. Even the world's longtime sugar producers are working to fatten yields. Brazil, where sugar has grown in the north for 400 years, is converting many unprofitable coffee areas to sugar in the southern states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Parana, and Mexico has built 71 mills, including the world's biggest one at Vera Cruz. The Philippine Republic...
...well along to make auto-headlight glass from sugar and to substitute sugar for the fats in soap detergents; sugar dissolves easily, does not cause water pollution. And, quite beyond these uses, sugar has one major value that no nation dare ignore: from the rum and cachaza of Brazil to Indonesian Arak, it is the universal base for alcoholic drinks. In Peru, where a drop in the U.S. import quota has caused a 220,000-ton sugar surplus, W. R. Grace & Co. intends to solve a national economic crisis in an ingenious way: Grace will use the excess to make...
Long-Term Commitment. Through revolution and expropriation ICOMI has remained unscathed. The main rea sons are that Bethlehem decided to stay in the background, commit its investment in Brazil to the long term and leave the management to Antunes. Antunes, now 58, is known as one of Brazil's most able and enlightened businessmen. He has started Brazil's first private foundation to support agricultural research, push education and development in backward areas. He has provided ICOMI workers with modern homes, built a fully staffed hospital, set up some of the best schools in Brazil. And all this...