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...book describe Brazil, where Poet Bishop has kept a pied à terre since 1952, and describe it in images that blazon the retina long after the book is closed. In "The Armadillo," for instance, she pictures the "frail, illegal fire balloons" that during Holy Week float up from Brazilian villages into the starry darkness, where they "flare and falter, wobble and toss" like fiery little moons in a mist...
...group of young Brazilian artists will begin a four-day lecture series here Sunday, at 8 p.m., in Boylston Auditorium with a talk on Brazilian painting. The nation-wide tour is sponsored by the Brazilian Embassy...
...Brazilian military men who rose up 19 months ago against corruption and Communism last week rose up once again. In Brasilia's Planalto Palace, President Humberto Castello Branco marched to a microphone and made the announcement. "The revolution is alive," he said. "It will not retreat. It has promoted reforms and will continue to undertake them. However, agitators are menacing the revolutionary order precisely when the revolution is trying to give the people practice in the discipline of exercising democracy...
With that, Castello Branco laid down a new Institutional Act far tougher than the one imposed to govern the country immediately after the revolution. It gives him power to suspend the political rights of any Brazilian, sack any municipal or federal legislator, intervene in any state "to prevent or repress the subversion of order." He can declare a state of siege for up to 180 days, shut down the national Congress, and decree any laws "complementary to the present act." Moreover, the armed forces, through the National Security Council, can dismiss any public employees who are deemed "incompatible with...
...year by 18%, to $853 million. Purchases of leisure goods-German toys, Japanese baseball gloves, French musical instruments and the like-have risen 20%, to $187 million. Electrical apparatus, notably Japanese transistor radios and TV sets, are up 39%, to $429 million. Among other gainers: Danish cheese, Swedish cars, Brazilian galoshes, Scotch whisky...