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...Brazilian dream is made of more than dream stuff. Brazil is indeed a giant. In population (57 million) it nearly matches all the other nine republics of South America put together. In area (3,287,842 sq. mi.) it is the world's biggest republic, big as the U.S. with a second Texas thrown in. In such big cities as Sao Paulo (see opposite page), the fastest-growing major metropolis, a new breed of Brazilian businessmen is changing the face of the land with a zeal unmatched in all of Latin America...
...dismayed the capital bureaucracy and the foreign diplomatic corps by announcing that the government would remain in steaming Rio during this year's hot season (mid-December through mid-March) instead of moving to the 26-mile-distant city of Petropolis, up in the cool mountains, as Brazilian chiefs of state have done since the days of Emperor (1822-31) Pedro I. "This government has no time for a vacation," Café Filho explained...
...outside eyes, Café Filho is a careful dresser with a preference for dark blue pin-stripe suits, grey ties and white silk shirts. At home he likes to lounge around in pajamas, reading, sipping coffee and chain-smoking strong Brazilian cigarettes (Hollywoods). Younger-looking than most men of his age, he still takes an occasional early-morning dip in the Atlantic surf on Copacabana beach. Despite his extensive reading, he is less educated, less cultured than Vargas was-but he promises to make a better President...
...visitors who arrive for the first time in the southern metropolis of Sao Paulo (pop. 2,500,000), Latin America's greatest industrial city, get a startling impression that the great Brazilian tomorrow has already reached high noon in a virtual explosion of civic energy. From downtown hotel windows they can count a dozen or more new office buildings under construction amidst what is already one of the world's most impressive arrays of skyscrapers. Rio de Janeiro (pop. 2,600,000) is undergoing an apartment-house boom only less startling than Sao Paulo's office-building...
...vastness of the gap between the envisioned tomorrow, and the actual today, Brazilians sometimes blame nature: the rugged mountain ranges that block the seaboard from the interior, the tropical heat that saps men's energy in the coastal cities, including Rio. Racists (rare but not unknown in tolerant Brazil) put the blame on Brazil's racial potpourri. (It was 62% white, 27% brown and 11% black by the 1950 census, but a majority of Brazilian whites have at least a trace of Indian or Negro blood.) Often Brazilians blame the nation's Portuguese colonial masters. Complains...