Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...m.p.h. The 1962 world racing Champion, Hill was trailing the Lotus of Scotland's Jimmy Clark by 25 sec. on the 79th lap when Clark was forced out with a jammed gearbox. The victory was worth nine points toward Hill's second straight Grand Prix title. > Brazil's basketball team: the world championship, for the second time in a row, with an 85-81 victory over the U.S. in the final game of the seven-nation round-robin tournament. Playing before a wildly partisan crowd of 22,000 in Rio de Janeiro, the undefeated (6-0) Brazilians...
...quiet and retiring types, they have sometimes proved to be less than perfect models for the kiddies. A one-penny Mauritius "Post Office" Red recently sold in England for $23,800 is known to have belonged to an unlikely philatelist, Manhattan Financier Eddy Gilbert, before he fled to Brazil in last year's E. L. Bruce scandal. And in 1892, a Parisian named Hector Giroux was so anxious to get his hands on the Hawaiian Missionary auctioned last week that he went to Fellow Collector Gaston Leroux, who had the stamp, and murdered him. When detectives finally picked...
Votes & Excuses. Where poverty and underemployment are everyday realities and privilege is taken for granted, self-seeking politicians underwrite featherbedding to win votes from powerful unions, and then seek out economists to provide scholarly excuses. Says Brazil's Juvenal Osório Gomes, a government economist: "Only a violently capitalistic regime without any social sentiment would threaten workers with the abject misery of having to look for a job and not finding it. Brazil is not violently capitalistic and never will...
...choice. Rio has been plunged into its most serious power shortage since 1904, when a company eventually taken over by the Canadian-owned Brazilian Traction, Light & Power Co. brought the city its first electricity and enlightened Brazilian parents began naming their sons Edison-still a favorite first name in Brazil...
...Brazil's President Joāo Goulart, who rode nationalism to power himself, has called foreign-owned utilities "a cadaver in the road to good relations" and has announced plans to buy out all foreign utility companies in the country. Goulart has already negotiated the purchase of International Telephone and Telegraph holdings, of American & Foreign Power Co. installations, and the Light's Rio telephone company. Since he has paid fair prices so far, and the Light expects to be nationalized sooner or later, the Light would just as soon it were sooner than later. Let someone else listen...