Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...braked to a halt in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The dust-covered tarpaulin was pulled away, and out of this one truck climbed 40-odd men, women and children - sunburned, dirty and ragged under wide-brimmed straw hats. At the end of a ten-day trek from Brazil's drought-afflicted Northeast, they shouldered their clothes bundles and started out for one of the 300 hillside favelas (slums) that are home for almost 1,000,000 cariocas. Said one new arrival, the father of four: "God will help us. We will get jobs." Throughout most of Latin...
...almost none of the slums are there such simple amenities as running water, electric lights or garbage collection. Fortnight ago in Bogota, rats attacked a nine-month-old baby girl left alone on a pallet and nibbled her to death. The police rarely intervene. Brazil's favelas breed a notorious outlaw called the malandro-an all-purpose con man, pimp, thief and murderer. Of 5,000 country girls who emigrate to Santiago's slums each month, 500 end up in brothels...
Useless Compromise. Moscow could still stop the Pacific blasts with a stroke of the pen-by signing a test-ban treaty with adequate inspection guarantees against cheating. Time and again the Russians have refused to do so. Nevertheless, the eight "middlemen" at the conference (Brazil, Burma, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria and Sweden) also played the game by weighing in with a "compromise" plan of their own that would leave it up to individual countries to "invite" foreign inspectors to investigate suspicious explosions. It was a system tailor-made for nuclear cheating. Zorin and the Communists liked it; Dean...
Today, Intra's investments range from potash extraction in the Dead Sea to Middle East Airlines (51% control), and Bedas is planning still more branches and affiliates in France, Italy, Brazil and Afri ca. Conservative Western financiers, un accustomed to the rough and tumble of Levantine business, are sometimes in clined to look askance at this headlong expansion and at the fact that Bedas, de spite the growing complexity of Intra's operations, continues to run it as a one-man show. But last week, as he hopped from Rome to Paris to London inspecting his empire, cocky...
Members of the Education and Culture Committee of Brazil's legislature left for Washington after visiting Harvard as guests of the University Marshal, J. Hamilton Robb. The Marshal's office sponsored a Faculty Club luncheon at which several Faculty members gave addresses in Portuguese...