Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a certain element of U.S. society that has always had a tender spot in its heart for Brazil-the crooks who go flying down to Rio to escape the law. Alone among hemisphere nations, Brazil has long refused to sign an extradition treaty with Washington, preferring to let bygones be gone. No one knows how many U.S. criminals have fled over the years, but they numbered in the hundreds...
...convention hall in Sao Paulo rocked to thunderous chants of "La-cer-da! La-cer-da!" Brazil's revolution was only six months old, and new presidential elections are not scheduled until Nov. 3, 1966. But Carlos Lacerda, 50, the mercurial Governor of Guanabara (Rio) State, is off and running full tilt for the presidency. Accepting the unanimous nomination of his National Democratic Union, Lacerda immediately boarded a campaign "Train of Hope" for a whistle-stop tour of 18 towns, standing on the back platform and fervently promising "a land of tranquillity, a government which functions without fear...
...about. In blazing headlines around the country, pro-Lacerda papers took up the cudgels for his "most noble civic and moral propositions." Anti-Lacerda papers vilified him as a "murderer" and "torturer." As he neared Rio last week, political enemies narrowly missed in an attempt to dynamite his train. Brazil's three other major political parties hastily announced plans to nominate their own candidates for 1966 to combat Lacerda...
Even while they were scrambling to catch up, Lacerda went spiraling on, flew to Manhattan for a Reader's Digest luncheon in his honor. "We shall never present a bill for the services Brazil rendered to all peoples in destroying a Communist occupation," he said of the revolution. However, it would be helpful if the U.S. would underwrite Brazil's currency by "the immediate creation of a fund to aid our effort against inflation," and also "would accept paying a better price for coffee." Suggestions like that store up political treasure back home for campaigning Carlos Lacerda...
More Supermarkets. Many native dishes have also been given the American treatment. In Brazil, International Packers of Chicago cans and sells feijoada, the country's traditional black bean, rice and pork dish. When Quaker Oats moved into Italy, it found a winning product in precooked two-minute polenta, the cornmeal mush without which no meal in rural northern Italy is complete. Last week in Mexico, where the hot dog is becoming nearly as popular as the hot tamale, General Foods began selling jars of the fiery chocolate sauce called mole. Though the French have remained staunchly traditionalist...