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GETZ/GILBERTO (Verve) is the still-selling smash hit in which the Brazilian father of bossa nova, Singer Joao Gilberto, was upstaged by his softspoken, hitherto unknown wife Astrud singing The Girl from Ipanema. The big bestseller sprouted a number of smaller bestsellers, a kind of family tree of albums...
...WONDERFUL WORLD OF ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM (Warner) features the young Brazilian composer who wrote most of Getz's best numbers. Backed by Nelson Riddle's band, Jobim picks up the mike himself to sing, in a husky, rueful, rather monotonous voice, some of his subtle and insinuating songs (Useless Landscape, She's a Carioca, A Felicidade...
...revolution by 200,000, with 1,500,000 votes counted and another 1,000,000 to go. In Guanabara (Rio), the outcome was even more striking. The state has been considered a private fief of Governor Carlos Lacerda, the mercurial politician who has proved a gadfly to every Brazilian President since Getulio Vargas in the 1950s. Lacerda now has presidential ambitions of his own in the elections scheduled for next year. But to have a chance, he first had to secure his base by installing a hand-picked successor as Governor of Guanabara. La cerda chose a presentable crony, campaigned...
This week two subsidiaries of Brazilian Traction Light & Power Co. will sign a $40 million loan agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development as the first step in a fiveyear, $228 million program to double their service. The Inter-American Development Bank and ADELA (Atlantic Community Development Group for Latin America), a private, multinational investment group that has invested $12.7 million in Latin America, have just joined with Brazilian Millionaire...
...Social Structure of Brazil. Half course (spring term). T, T, (S) at 11. Discusses various approaches to the study of Brazilian society and the type of understanding which may (or may not) be gained from each. Particular attention will be paid to the idea of "two nations" and its sociological implications, to race relations, to the function of the bureaucracy, and to the working of the political system...