Word: brazilianizing
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...have mechanical trouble with my engines," he told the control tower at Orly Airport. The control tower at Orly alerted all rescue units and prepared for an emergency landing by the crippled craft. The alert was in vain. Only a minute and a half before its scheduled landing, the Brazilian Varig Airlines 707, which had flown from Sāo Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, crash-landed in an onion field 2½ miles from the airport...
...Brazilian constitution stipulates that a President cannot succeed himself. General Emilio Médici, the current President, therefore announced last week that the ruling military junta had been searching for a man of "moral and intellectual depth . . . unquestionable knowledge . . . experience," a man who could provide the nation with "progress, well-being and happiness." This paragon, to no one's surprise, turned out to be another military man, ex-General Ernesto Geisel, 65, president of the state-owned petroleum monopoly, Petrobrás. Geisel must be approved by the electoral college before he is inaugurated for a five-year term...
...Tupper, who began to install two medical clinics, an operating room, two dental clinics and a pharmacy. He also provided a new name: the Esperanto (Portuguese for hope). This month he officially dedicated the ark, and his main problem now is how to get the U.S. Navy or the Brazilian government or some other secular angel to waft the 55-ton Esperanto to its destination on the Amazon, more than 5,000 miles away...
...Latin and philosophy courses in the U.S., he was sent to Brazil, armed with a crash course in Portuguese, to finish his theological studies for the priesthood. There he also learned that in order to practice medicine among the Indians of the Amazon he would have to acquire a Brazilian high school certificate and pass written, oral and practical examinations in seven areas of medicine, all in Portuguese. He worked his way through all that in just over a year and was ordained...
...fact that the Brazilian officials stuck punctiliously to their ceremonial visit underscored their feeling about the importance of Rogers' visit...