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Spouting Snow. Among the dunes and date palms of the Gaza Strip, he called on Brazilian and Indian units deployed along the Israeli border, inspected a hospital staffed by Canadians and Norwegians. At their encampment, the Swedes built a big bonfire in his honor near the beach and tried to celebrate his arrival with the traditional Swedish long dance (they had to abandon it because of the sandy footing). At dinner the Indians (to whom Christmas is not a religious holiday) provided a group of bagpipers for entertainment. At Khan Yunis, the Colombians rigged up cardboard boxes that spouted artificial...
...Brazil a small, hitherto unknown company named Torgbraz came to the fore as the Soviet Union's trading arm. Run by a retired Brazilian colonel and a "refugee" from Russia, Torgbraz (Trade-Brazil) offered to supply Petrobras, the state oil monopoly, with crude oil, drilling and refinery equipment on either "short-or long-term payment." (At present Petrobras gets equipment from U.S. companies on strictly businesslike terms...
Only a month earlier, No. 1 Communist Nikita Khrushchev, in an interview with a Brazilian Communist newspaperman, had plugged for a booming trade that would exchange Brazil's coffee, cocoa, hides, sugar and cotton for such manufactured goods as "oil-well-drilling equipment and automobiles." The trade offers, suspiciously similar, were aimed at a big target: a country with 100,000 Communist Party members and enough party-liners to swing a tight election. They were shrewdly directed at sensitive areas such as Petrobras, of which the public is fiercely proud. Publicly, Petrobras was cool to the Torgbraz offers...
...name was not really Helena but Alice. She was Portuguese, living with her parents in the Brazilian diamond-mining town of Diamantina, and she began to keep her record of everyday happenings in 1893, when she was twelve. In 1942, as Senhora Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant of Rio de Janeiro (her husband twice served as president of the Bank of Brazil), she published her diary in a small edition for friends and family. Famed French Novelist Georges Bernanos saw it and proclaimed it a work of genius. By the time-1952-that U.S. Pulitzer-Prizewinning Poet Elizabeth Bishop went...
Diamond Fever. Helena's father was the son of an English doctor named Dayrell who had settled in Brazil because he had a "weak chest." Her mother was one of ten daughters of a Brazilian who married off his girls without their leave by the simple process of interviewing the proposing swains. Helena records family stories of how the girls "used to peek through the keyhole and tell each other, 'I think that so-and-so's mine.' " Helena's mother was one of only two who married for love, and it was-as charmingly...