Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carlos Lacerda, former governor of Guanabara, Brazil, will discuss Brazilian politics and the recent Punta del Este conference with Albert Hirschman, professor of political economy, and Evon Vogt, professor of social anthropology, at 8 p.m. tonight in the Leverett House Old Library...
...Place to Hide. The prediction may not be all that far fetched. A crowd of 41,598 turned out at Yankee Stadium last September to watch Santos of Brazil play an exhibition against Inter of Milan, and 10 million Americans tuned into the Telstar broadcast last July of England's victory over Germany for the World Cup. What's more, soccer should be a natural for TV. Baseball fields are all the wrong shape, and the action is too slow; a good pro football quarterback can hide the ball from the TV camera as well as from...
...often. In this novel, Laxness touches with song the most unlikely events, from Jon of Skagi's self-appointment as custodian of the town lavatory to a great debate that raged in Iceland about whether the establishment of barbershops should be permitted. As a storyteller, Laxness shares with Brazil's Jorge Amado (TIME, May 28, 1965) an infectious zest for the eccentricities of ordinary people and a genial affection for those resolute fish in humankind who dare to swim against the tide...
Until this year, it appeared that because of their cost and the need to take them on a rigorous schedule, the pills were only for the few in advanced countries with high literacy and living standards. For those in the slums and back-lands of such nations as Brazil and Malaysia, hope seemed to lie with a much cheaper and simpler mechanical contraceptive, the intrauterine device, or IUD. Once inserted by a doctor, an IUD can be left in place and forgotten. But latest reports show that illiterate women who can't count can still take their pills...
...world blue-eyed for Aryanism by means of painful ocular injections; he is now reported by Wiesenthal to be hiding in Paraguay. Biggest fish still at large, though, is Deputy Führer Martin Bormann, now 66, who Wiesenthal claims is not only alive but doing quite nicely in Brazil. Says Wiesenthal with mock resignation: "No country will want to attempt a second Eichmann case. Bormann will come to his end some day, and the West German reward of 100,000 marks [$25,000] will never be paid." After a book like this, maybe it will...