Word: brazil
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...Davis Cup team was beaten in preliminary interzone play, and was thereby eliminated from the challenge round against Australia. The previous losses, at least, were to Mexico, Italy (twice) and Spain-all of whom have solid credentials in international tennis. Last week's defeat came in Brazil, where sportswriters spent much of the week trying to explain to their readers just what the Davis Cup is. Only 3,000 fans (700 short of capacity) turned out to watch the matches at Porto Alegre's Leopoldina Juvenil Tennis Club. And most of them-like the bewildered program director...
...lads who played for Brazil, however, had a pretty fair idea of how to hold a racket. And they may have worked a pretty good ploy on the U.S. too. As a tune-up for the Davis Cup competition, the Brazilian and U.S. teams played in last month's South American championships at Buenos Aires. The tournament was won by Texas' Cliff Richey, 19, the U.S.'s No. 3-ranked player-behind Dennis ("the Menace") Ralston and Arthur Ashe; in the process, Richey beat both of Brazil's Davis Cuppers, Thomaz Koch, 21, and Edison Mandarine...
...from any other country willing to sell to us." And possibly cheaper, since Europe is hungry for the business. The Swedes are offering the Saab Draken fighter for some $700,000, compared with $900,000 for Northrop's slower (Mach-1.3) F-5 Freedom Fighter (see U.S. BUSINESS). Brazil claims that five-year terms are the best it can get in the U.S.; the British are offering ten years. As a result, the Brazilians ordered ten Avro-748s from Britain last month, and took an option for more...
...Pacific, which Peru could provide. In turn, Peru's military, miffed about a call for Latin American disarmament by the Presidents of Chile and Colombia, wants closer ties with Bolivia's ex-Air Force General Barrientos, who is friendly with the Presidents of Argentina and Brazil-both of whom are also ex-generals...
After a final, hearty abrazo, Barrientos flew to La Paz, where he made preparations for another summit meeting this week-with Brazil's President Humberto Castello Branco. Belaúnde got into a helicopter and whirred off to the isolated, primitive Peruvian village of Aguarunas, where his interpreter explained to the curious Indians that this tall, grey-haired white man was the President of something called Peru. While the Indians laughed and shrugged in confusion, Belaúnde threw an arm around one for a quick photograph, then popped back into his helicopter for another stop or two before...