Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same more or less applies in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and every diplomat - U.S. or otherwise - considers it part of the game to build up a nest egg by importing and reselling a car every two or three years. When he left his post last year, one ambassador put two cars on the market, one of them a Lincoln Continental; another departing embassy official unloaded a three-year-old Buick...
...Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Guatemala...
Fleet & Fiery. Top prize of 40,000 zlotys ($1,667) went to Argentina's Martha Argerich, who won by an eyelash over Brazil's Arturo Moreira-Lima. The Polish audiences, who packed Warsaw's splendorous Philharmonic Hall for each session of the grueling three-week contest, took issue with the judges, awarded their longest, loudest ovations to 24-year-old Edward Auer (fifth) from Los Angeles, the first American ever to gain the finals in the prestigious competition for young pianists (age limit: 30). Auer captured the audience's fancy with his bashful manner...
California's Edgar Kaiser, 56, is an uncommonly sentimental tycoon. Whenever he sees his father, the legendary Henry J. Kaiser, 82, he greets the old man with a warm hug and a kiss. Two weeks ago, when Edgar was decorated with Brazil's Order of the Southern Cross, the tears flowed freely down his cheeks. On business matters, however, Edgar Kaiser is eminently dry-eyed. Finally stepping out of his father's long shadow, he has taken full charge of the family's 100-company empire and spread the business into 40 countries on six continents...
Like other Latin American intellectuals, Jaguaribe criticizes the United States for exploiting his country's resources and supporting military-elitist coalitions. He speaks with a peculiar mixture of hostility and admiration of "our North American neighbor." "People now ask," he says, "which will live longer: General Motors or Brazil? The armies you aid are only fit for the oppression of their own people, the occupation of their own nation. By supporting these dictators, you are guarding stability and preventing communism, but you are also suppressing the popular will. The loans of the United States can sustain the present government...