Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil's free-swinging politics, violence is often more than verbal. Rip-roaring fist fights sometimes punctuate the debates in the modernistic chambers of the national Congress in Brasilia. Many a lawmaker packs a pistol, which can be used-as one Congressman recently discovered-to assure undivided attention to a speech...
...could crackle into life at any moment. In the Mideast, the Arab states threaten war if Israel goes ahead next spring with its planned diversion of the River Jordan's waters. In Laos, the fighting between the Communist Pathet Lao and the neutralists could flare any time. In Brazil, runaway inflation threatens the nation with chaos. There are incipient crises in Chile and Haiti, Cambodia and Malaysia, and a shooting war in Viet...
...stake was the World Club soccer championship-Santos of Brazil v. Milan of Italy-and all Brazil braced for the familiar frenzy. Work came to a standstill; every radio and TV set was tuned to the broadcast. In Brasilia President Joao Goulart canceled all appointments and camped by his radio; congressional committees recessed; Alliance for Progress meetings in Sao Paulo were scheduled around game time. And in Rio 150,000 passionate souls, every man jack of them willing to part with his last cruzeiro, squeezed into Maracana Stadium for the games. Games? It was more like a Latin American madness...
Conk, Kick, Bash. Brazil was already behind in the three-game series, having lost the first hard fought encounter, 2-4, to the Italians in Milan. But now Santos' eleven-man team was on national ground, and with Brazil's famed "twelfth man"-the crowd-at its back. "Goooooaaaaallllllllll!" howled the mob at each Santos goal; fireworks lit the sky and fans danced in the stands. No wonder that Santos, even playing without its injured superstar Pele (TIME, April 12), won the second game, 4-2, tying...
Small & Intensive. Unlike state-run universities, where 100 or more students may crowd into a classroom, the church schools believe in a close student-professor relationship. At Mexico City's Ibero-American University, there is one teacher for every five students; among Brazil's Catholic universities, the ratio is one to six. Says one Catholic-university professor who turned down a high-paying offer from a state school: "I would rather teach 60 students intensively, knowing each individually, than deal with 1,000 students, among whom, at the end of the year, I might get to know only...