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...once a leader of Rome society and her husband was an Italian-Brazilian count. But last year Count Marco Fabio Crespi, slipped off to Mexico and got himself a divorce so that he could marry a Brazilian banker's daughter. Insisting that she is still the real countess, statuesque Vivian Stokes Taylor Crespi, 39, whose son, Marc Antonio, 10, is a Newport playmate of Caroline Kennedy, finally managed to get her case to court. Docketed for trial in Manhattan this month is her suit to have herself declared the count's legal wife on the grounds that...
Recounting a little usually forgotten history, the economist described Brazilian President Kubitschek's original conception of the Alliance as "Operation America." Out of it grew the Quitandinha Conference of 1954, in which first proposed the idea of Latin American countries cooperating in a partnership for sustained economic growth...
...hands in the little Brazilian cacao port of Ilhéus complain that the place has become overcivilized, and with reason. Take the matter of government. In the past, a sane, orderly rule was established and maintained in Ilhéus by the most efficient of means: gunfire. Now, in the 1920s, there are modernists who say that gunfire is outdated; the new method is the free election. Polls are rigged, of course, to ensure that power remains in the proper hands, but oldtimers see no merit in the innovation; the elections are cumbersome and not at all entertaining...
There is also the serious matter of morality. In the old days a proper Brazilian wife stayed home, speaking only to the servants and to God. Now the town fathers are mortified; a man cannot walk home from a quiet evening at the brothel without seeing married women and their spineless husbands shamelessly laughing at the door of the new cinema. It is all very disturbing...
...does not take the reader long to realize that he is in the hands of a Brazilian Boccaccio (whose book is marred now and then by his translators' foolish fondness for gringo slang). It is no surprise, therefore, when Gabriela appears-the laughing, barefoot, round-rumped omnamorata who turns up in the bawdy literature of every language. Who is Gabriela's husband? Naturally he is fat Nacib, the saloonkeeper. Who crawls in Nacib's window when Nacib is tending bar? No one but oily Tonico, the seducer. Will Tonico succeed in getting back out when Nacib comes...