Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paulo, Brazil...
...Charles de Gaulle has often said as much, and the Harris figures strongly indicate that he is right. More Americans are willing to use nuclear weapons in defense of Canada than of any other country, but at that only 17% would risk it. Mexico is second, at 15%. If Brazil were invaded by outside Communist military force, 52% would favor some form of U.S. help-though only 7% would go so far as to launch hydrogen bombs. Only 42% would aid Italy, a staunch NATO ally. Americans would not go that far if other countries were threatened by a Communist...
...tenth anniversary last week, Rockefeller invited 290 artists from around the world to a "thank you" dinner atop the bank's 60-story skyscraper. A total of approximately 125 showed up, mostly New Yorkers, but including Hans Hartung from Paris, Sidney Nolan from London, Manabu Mabe from Brazil. West Germany's Heinz Mack prankishly mailed in a lifesize, cardboard-backed photograph of himself in black tie, folded so that it could-and did-sit down at table and listen to the speeches with the other guests...
Though problems of poverty and illiteracy still abound, the army-backed government has succeeded in containing Brazil's worst economic enemy, inflation, which previously ate up wages before they could be spent. Now, tough monetary policies have cut the inflationary rate from 87% in 1964 to an almost bearable 24% last year, and the situation continues to improve...
Mutual Antagonism. Army engineers are laying new highways-well posted with signs saying "The Army Builds"-that are opening up previously inaccessible farmlands. The country's agriculture, long overly dependent on coffee, is being diversified with other crops. Brazil's impoverished Northeast is receiving record amounts of government aid and private investment...