Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasantest assignments a photographer ever had fell to Philippe Halsman, who in eight weeks photographed eight of the world's reigning beauties, for this week's color spread. Packing about 200 lbs. of special equipment, he jumped about from Brazil to Bangkok. Oddly enough, he came upon two of his reigning beauties about 15 miles apart, near the Swiss resort town of Gstaad. There he photographed Mme. Houphouet-Boigny, whose husband runs the Ivory Coast, and Philadelphia's Grace Kelly, whose husband runs Monaco. Halsman, who has known Princess Grace from her Hollywood days, finds...
...measure yielded to the clamor from all sides to nationalize major foreign-owned utility companies. But he made it clear that he intends to give fair value for the properties. Since World War II, increased expenses and government-set rates have caught the U.S. and Canadian companies that run Brazil's telephone and power plants in a profit squeeze that has kept them from needed expansion. Canada's $1 billion Brazilian Traction, Light & Power Co. Ltd., which owns 82% of Brazil's 956,000 telephones and one-third of the installed power capacity, has been making only...
...trip to the U.S. two months ago, Goulart got President Kennedy's general agreement to a plan under which the utilities would be nationalized for fair value. Brazilian Traction agreed. So did American & Foreign Power Co. Inc., whose eleven subsidiaries, worth $250 million, produce 10% of Brazil's power. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., which recently lost a telephone system to Rio Grande do Sul's Leftist Governor Leonel Brizola and is still trying to collect, was noncommittal. But Goulart's decree last week should do something to ease I.T. & T.'s pain. The government promises...
...from Rio de Janeiro, graduated from its school of medicine in 1933, Dr. Candau went to work in his home state's health department. After a year at Johns Hopkins, where he polished his correct English, Dr. Candau won acclaim in a Rockefeller health project in Brazil. From that, it was but a step to WHO in 1950, running its office for organizing health services, and in 1953 to the director generalship...
...doctor, Candau is ideally suited for the job of getting things organized so that other people can treat more patients and train more doctors and nurses. Technically domiciled in Geneva, he spends nearly half the year flying around the world, visiting WHO's member states. Coming from nonaligned Brazil, Dr. Candau began work at WHO with an innate advantage over his predecessor (Canadian Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm): the Soviet Union and its satellites, which had walked out of WHO in 1949 for political reasons, accepted his neutrality and returned. As smooth in manner and speech as in his grooming...