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...hold gubernatorial elections in eleven states (out of 22) in October and a presidential election next year; his revolution, he says, "is not afraid of the ballot box." But because Castello Branco has a scruple against outlawing the opposition, one of the contenders for votes will be the Brazilian Labor Party, the power behind the inflationist, leftist regime that Castello Branco overthrew last year. The President is counting on electoral courts to use the new Ineligibilities Law to keep off the ballot candidates that he considers genuinely undesirable...
Last week came the first test. In Guanabara state (Rio), a five-party coalition built around the Brazilian Labor Party had supported for governor retired Army Marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott, 70, who has repeatedly denounced the revolution as "undemocratic." Many Brazilians assumed that the government would trump up a charge to disqualify him. Instead, a state electoral court found a perfectly legal reason: Lott had thoughtlessly transferred his voting registration to another state. The opposition parties now seem set to pick a friendlier...
ANNA MOFFO/LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI (RCA Victor). Miss Moffo sings Brazilian Com poser-Conductor Heitor Villa-Lobos' wanton Bachianas Brasileiras in a way that would excite Bach or any gypsy. Her voice has both richness and fluidity; her mood shifts with the song like quicksilver. In Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, she settles unfortunately into simpering sentimentality, which is not relieved by Stokowski's painfully slow pace...
...population has doubled (to 8,400,000) in the past 20 years, compared with a U.S. increase of 39%. In the meantime, food production is rising only 2% a year, reflecting in part the heavy migration of peasants from the farm to the city. "Something must be done," warns Brazilian Economist Glycon de Paiva. "Without population control, any real economic development is impossible." Rhythm & Abortion. Part of the problem is Latin America's Roman Catholic tradition, which opposes any means of family regulation except the rhythm method. Unfortunately, that form of birth control has proved far too sophisticated...
Ever since the 19th century days of Emperor Dom Pedro II, the Brazilian stock market has been a scene of chaos. The coun try's major stock exchange in Rio de Janeiro has been presided over by a closed group of 40 brokers who passed their seats on the bolsa down through their families, collected such lucrative commis sions on currency-exchange transactions that they have had little incentive to push stock purchases. Long confined to only two hours a day, the trading sessions usually took place amid such bedlam that little serious business was ever ac complished...