Word: brazil
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Latin America looms large in this issue. In addition to the Punta del Este story, written by David B. Tinnin, there is a cover story on Brazil's President Costa e Silva (with eight pages of color photographs), written by Philip Osborne and edited by Edward Jamieson. All told, 27 TIME reporters, photographers, writers, researchers and editors worked on these stories...
...Rafael Hotel on the final night of the historic Punta del Este conference of hemisphere chiefs, Latin American leaders surrounded him and embraced him in one passionate abrazo after another. When they finally turned him loose, their wives besieged him for autographs. "This has been so beautiful," sighed Brazil's President Arthur da Costa e Silva. Said Mexico's Gustavo Diaz Ordaz: "President Johnson is showing heart for Latin America...
...five-man Uruguayan guard was assigned to each President in addition to the security forces that each head of state brought with him; Brazil's Costa e Silva brought a 20-man detachment, Argentina's Juan Ongania twelve men. Johnson, of course, outdid them all. Scores of Secret Service men moved through the grounds around Beaulieu, the Johnson residence, chattering into walkie-talkies about the whereabouts of "Volunteer," the code name for Johnson. Whenever he moved, they literally shielded him with a wall of bodies; they even decided to remove the 1,430-lb. chandelier that hung over...
...Latin American nations on their own, the leaders who met in Punta del Este will be looking to the U.S. and Lyndon Johnson for limited help, for encouragement and moral support. When it comes to the hard business of getting actual results, though, their eyes will be turned toward Brazil and its new President, Arthur da Costa e Silva. Brazil is the key to the success or failure of any attempt at economic integration in Latin America. Its influence and power are decisive; its vast land embodies all of the deepest problems and brightest prospects of the Southern Hemisphere. While...
...they (the new leaders) don't make the change, Brazil will have a progressive dictatorship," he said...