Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Sprague Myers, professor of Biology at Stanford University, will speak on the Agassiz-Thayer expedition to Brazil at its hundredth anniversary today. The speech will start at 4 p.m. in the Biological Lab's Main Lecture Room...
...belatedly but unmistakably, Brazil's forgotten country is astir with new activity and new hope...
...area, mostly for dams, power projects, roads and other facilities essential to attract industry. The U.S. chipped in $131 million in development loans and grants, while private investors committed $300 million. Despite ever-increasing bureaucratization, overall production in the Northeast climbed 6% in 1964 (v. a 3% decline for Brazil as a whole). Then, in the wake of the March 1964 revolution, the military decided that Leftist Furtado should be purged; he was replaced by Sociologist João Gonçalves de Souza...
...blame for years of fiscal mismanagement in Argentina. Moreover, though Illia's government announced bravely that it would now deal independently with the nation's creditors in Europe, the U.S. and Japan, hardheaded foreign bankers are not likely to stretch out repayment terms-as they did for Brazil and Chile -without IMF backing for the Argentine government. Meanwhile Illia announced new export taxes that will virtually cancel out any profits that exporters stood to gain through exchange devaluation...
...uncle of the human race and prince of good livers!" The line appeared in London's Vanity Fair and described a beguiling American who counted among his friends Bismarck, the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), Thomas Huxley, President Garfield, the Emperor of Brazil, Tennyson, Thackeray and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...