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THAT MAN FROM RIO. Jean-Paul Belmondo ducks poisoned darts, outwits mad scientists, and narrowly escapes a Brazilian crocodile in Director Philippe de Broca's wonderfully wacky distillation of all the adventure movies ever made...
...sadness I have ever known in my whole public life," said Brazil's onetime President. "In the expectancy that the cancellation of my political rights, and therefore my rights as a citizen, will be confirmed, I believe it is my duty to direct a few words to the Brazilian nation...
Brazil is famous as the lost continent of economics. It has ignored all the rules, maintained a giddy inflation of 40% to 80% per year, built up a foreign debt of $3 billion, and seemed to be operating on four basic Brazilian principles: 1) God is a Brazilian, 2) confidence is a good racket, 3) paper is the stuff money is made of, and 4) the Americans would always bail them out anyway...
...last month alone, executives of 35 major U.S. corporations have been scouting São Paulo, and this week six leading Brazilian businessmen will travel to New York-at Banker David Rockefeller's behest-to talk with 100 other U.S. prospects. "Only by creating wealth," says President Castello Branco, "can we distribute it justly among all Brazilians. We intend to support and stimulate capital...
...will include the construction of 6,500 elementary schools. 332 health centers, 22 teacher-training centers, 21 normal schools and 47 audio-visual centers plus the renovation of about 4,000 existing calssrooms. Daly will send a staff of 50 to supervise the project, but Brazilian contractors will do the construction work. Daly's aim: to create a name and a new market for his work in Latin Americaa, where he sees both "infinite possibilities and all sorts of problems waiting to be solves...