Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best tennis player Australia has ever produced, undertook to coach her through the hard-to-cross gap that separates excellence from greatness. Under Sedgman's coaching, she ran, lifted weights, avoided boy friends. "They don't mix with tennis," she explains. In 1960, at 17, she upset Brazil's Maria Bueno in the finals, became the youngest woman ever to win the Australian championship...
...typical Fernandes performance, the kind that has lifted him to his position as prickliest political pundit in all Brazil. Starting out at 19 reporting for Rio de Janeiro's O Cruzeiro, he bounced from paper to magazine to paper, always making a success, always eventually quitting after a scrap with the boss...
...even madder when he read Fernandes' followup, Page One commentary: "Those two confidential dispatches had no secret. They just disclosed the War Minister's immense capacity for being contradictory and vain." That did it. The army claimed Fernandes had exposed a secret code as well as violated Brazil's military penal law, and the country was split down the middle arguing the issue of freedom of the press...
...about 7.5 degrees of longitude per day. Out on the Navy control ship Kingsport in Lagos harbor, Nigeria, engineers sent radio signals that fired jets of hydrogen peroxide to slow Syncom down. Obediently the satellite changed the direction of its drift, began to move toward its proper position above Brazil...
When Syncom reaches Brazil, its drift will be stopped by further jets of peroxide, and its antenna may be pointed with still greater accuracy at the earth. Then it will arc high above the New Jersey horizon, ready to relay messages to and from more than one-third of the earth...