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...month now, the most glamorous city under the Southern Cross has been dining by candlelight, but hardly from choice. Rio has been plunged into its most serious power shortage since 1904, when a company eventually taken over by the Canadian-owned Brazilian Traction, Light & Power Co. brought the city its first electricity and enlightened Brazilian parents began naming their sons Edison-still a favorite first name in Brazil...
These include dormitories for Brazilian and Swiss students in University City outside Paris, a new museum of modern French art in Tokyo, the pilgrimage church of Notre Dame de Ronchamp, and a convent for the Dominican Order at La Tourette, near Lyon...
...impact of these imaginings was widespread. In Rio de Janeiro, a group of architects, including Oscar Niemeyer, designed the Brazilian ministry of Education and Health (1939-1943), incorporating Le Corbusier's ideas -- stilts, sun-breakers, roof-garden, cubist design of windows and balconies. Niemeyer's plans for Brasilia also show the impact of Le Corbusier...
...contemporary works on Friday's program were neither experimental nor educational. In Pampeana No. 3, Alfredo Ginastera, the well-known Brazilian composer, compiles all the best known motives from travelogues and documentary films; hence the subtitle "a pastoral symphony." Ginastera is without doubt an excellent anthologist; in the second movement of the three movement work, for example, he uses the percussive sonorities of the piano well, and sustains attractively the drive which he establishes. However, menthol-fresh flutes and oh-so-moving woodwind duos run riot in the first and third movements. On his own terms Ginastera is good...
...five-year pact is supposed to increase trade to $160 million this year, to $225 million by 1965 and after that, it all depends on how things work out. Brazil will import Russian oil, wheat, airplanes, tractors and industrial machinery. In turn, the Russians promise to buy Brazilian oranges, cotton, rice, cocoa, plus 60,000 tons of coffee per year-about 5% of Brazil's coffee exports. Being tea drinkers themselves, the Russian's propose to send shiploads of the coffee to Castro's Cuba. And on this point the two countries fell into their first conflict...