Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They thought I was a political cadaver," rang out the familiar, high-pitched voice across the public square in the industrial city of Campinas. "But the people, repeating the Bible, said 'Rise and walk,' and here I am." A year after he surprisingly abdicated Brazil's presidency and took a slow boat around the world, six months after his return to an uncertain political future, unstable, unpredictable J?nio Quadros, 45, was hard on the comeback campaign trail last week, running for his old job as governor of S?o Paulo state...
...never been away. Crowds saw the same disheveled hair, rumpled suit, and sweeping gestures, and heard the same messianic utterances. He promised them economic reform, abolition of large landholdings, curbs on foreign investments. "This is the campaign for the redemption of S?o Paulo and Brazil," he declared. He blasted the "powerful groups" and "foreign interests" that drove President Getulio Vargas, he said, "to suicide and led me to resignation...
...northeast went to the federal government's SUDENE (Superintendency of Northeast Development), whose aim was long-range development. On a visit to Washington last month, Alves argued that he needed help right now; his starving people were easy prey for the militant, Communist-led Peasant Leagues sweeping Brazil's northeastern states. Returning home, Alves visited President Joao Goulart, eventually won his agreement to bypass federal channels. Moscoso himself was convinced after a few days in the impoverished backlands. Said Alves "We are starting...
...James Robert Orr was finishing a rugged five-year tour of duty sowing the Protestant gospel on the stony soil of Brazil's Parana state, near the Argentine border. Now the gaunt, 59-year-old Baptist was heading home for Canada. With his wife and their three youngest children, he jeeped into Laranjeiras do Sul (pop. 2,000) and went to a local doctor for certificates of vaccination. Told that the Orrs had all been vaccinated six or seven years earlier, the doctor perfunctorily issued "certificates of immunity...
...Chickenpox? Rare in the U.S. and Canada for almost half a century, and unknown there since 1947, smallpox is endemic in Brazil; 2,644 cases were reported in 1960, and 1,411 in 1961. Near Laranjeiras the Orrs had visited a ranch where children were down with the pox, but nobody paid much heed or knew what kind.* By the time the Orrs got to bustling, ultramodern Sao Paulo, 400 miles away, James William Orr, 14, complained of fever and a sore throat. A local doctor diagnosed influenza and hopefully dosed him vith medicine. The feverish boy lay around Viracopos...