Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more scientific than ideological. Marx seemed to be talking about realities, hidden behind surface thought, that controlled some of man's responses to his environment. A chance appointment as professor of sociology at the University of Sāo Paulo dispatched Lévi-Strauss in 1935 to Brazil. The new arrival's intellectual curiosity shortly lured him into the jungle on anthropological field trips. The experience permanently altered his appreciation...
Reporting to the A.M.A. on the results of the first 20 applications of the technique on schistosomiasis victims in Brazil, Dr. Kean said as many as 1,668 worms had been filtered from the blood of a single patient. The patients had been excreting thousands of eggs a day; after the operation, ten excreted no more eggs, suggesting that all the mated flukes had been filtered out of their systems, and seven others showed great improvement. Though it was developed specifically for the fluke Schistosoma mansoni, common in South America and Africa, Drs. Kean and Goldsmith believe the technique...
...Sunday at the courts in Manhattan's Central Park is longer than the membership rolls (500) at all of Ecuador's five tennis clubs combined. But the U.S. Davis Cup team, which in eight years has managed to lose to Mexico, Italy (twice), Spain and Brazil, was not about to let statistics stand in the way. In Guayaquil last week, a four-man U.S. squad headed by Arthur Ashe-ranked the No. 1 amateur in the U.S. and No. 4 in the world-was upset by a couple of Ecuadorians who had never won a major tournament...
...bodies had been recovered, many burned beyond identification. But the toll could reach more than 300, since 250 were still missing. It was, by any count, Brussels' worst fire and the most devastating one worldwide since 323 persons perished in a circus blaze in Brazil in 1961. Brussels Mayor Lucien Cooremans said that it would take a month or so to comb through the tangled debris, which still smoldered days later. Store officials estimated the property loss at $23 million...
...tons of grain a year, the U.S. will contribute 42%, the Common Market 23%, Canada 11%, Britain, Australia and Japan 5% each. Altogether, that aid comes to less than half of the grain the U.S. has been donating annually to such countries as India, Pakistan 'and Brazil. But Europe and Japan will have to buy their share for cash, thus increasing the world commercial market for wheat. Delegates also agreed on a new minimum world price of $1.73 a bushel for hard red winter wheat sold at Gulf Coast ports-23? a bushel above the existing floor, but only...