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Escapist Psychology. The project is a politically popular one, at least in part because of recurrent rumors among Brazilian nationalists that the U.S. plans to take over the region for military purposes, or as a home for blacks or a refuge in the event of nuclear attack. Not everyone is enthusiastic about the highway, though. For one thing, most of the money is coming from funds that had been allocated to build impressive new industrial plants in the Northeast. For another, some Brazilians fear that the highway will merely aid large U.S. companies like U.S. Steel and Union Carbide...
Died. Peter Fleming, 64, peripatetic man of action and letters; of a heart attack; in Black Mount, Scotland. Though less famous as a writer than his older brother Ian, who created James Bond, Peter Fleming produced minor classics. His books Brazilian Adventure (1933) and News from Tartary (1936) are still in print. The first, which spoofed superserious adventure tales, was based on his search for a lost jungle expedition; the second on his 3,500-mile trek from China to Kashmir. A Grenadier Guards colonel during World War II, he was an intelligence operative in Nazi-occupied Greece, then...
...plays seem to provide such promising operatic material as the dark and intense verse dramas of Spain's Federico Garcia Lorca. Blood Wedding has been made into an opera at least four times, and in the early 1950s the noted Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos was commissioned to transform Yerma into an opera. He finished it in 1955, but died before it could be produced...
When the Alliance for Progress was started in 1961, the Kennedy Administration decided that one way to help Latin America economically would be to sell it fewer costly weapons. As Lyndon Johnson later said, to sell supersonic jets to Brazilian and Argentinian generals would be to "take clothes off the backs and food from the stomachs and education away from the minds of [Latin American] children...
...like McDonnell-Douglas' $4,000,000 Phantom jet are still embargoed. In addition, Congress may be reluctant to approve the sale of eight Lockheed antisubmarine planes to Brazil because they might be used to apprehend U.S. fishing vessels inside the 200-mile territorial limit just proclaimed by the Brazilian government. But Administration staffers have made clear that were it not for fear of an explosive reaction in Congress, the arms lid would be off altogether. Meanwhile Latin American countries can buy most basic U.S. military equipment, including trucks, radio gear and small arms...