Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he took office almost three years ago, Brazil's plucky, pragmatic President Humberto Castello Branco came out against Communism, corruption and economic instability, and man aged to score some impressive successes (see WORLD BUSINESS). The way he did it angered many of his countrymen...
...been wondering what will come after next March 15, when the military's hand-picked President-elect Artur da Costa e Silva takes office. More of the same? Or a gradual return to democracy? Last week they got their answer when Castello Branco released the proposed draft of Brazil's first new constitution since...
...1933?the year that Hitler was elected Reich Chancello ?Kurt Kiesinger became a member of the Nazi Party. It took only a year for Kiesinger to realize that he could not hope to influence developments within Hitler's increasingly brutal movement. For a time he considered emigrating to Brazil, but he had no money for a transatlantic move. So he stayed on in Berlin, tutored law students and practiced law. From then on, he shied away from any further contact with the Nazis, refusing to join the Nazi lawyers' guild or to accept any post within the party?though...
...stake were 23 seats in the 66-member federal Senate, all 409 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, plus all 22 state legislatures, local councils and municipal mayorships. Under Brazil's new government-decreed two-party system, voters could either cast their ballot for the government's ARENA candidate or for the opposition M.D.B.-thus theoretically voting for or against President Humberto Castello Branco's brand of "revolution." Such is Brazilian politics today that a vote for a government candidate was not always a vote for the government. Some ARENA candidates openly proclaimed-their opposition to Castello...
...final singles match against Mandarino, the Menace lost his cool. Visibly rattled by noisy spectators, who chanted "Brasil! Bra-sil!" from the third set onward, he collapsed completely in the fifth set and lost 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 1-6, giving Brazil a 3-2 victory...