Word: brazilianizing
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Senegal, Bolivia, Jamaica and even Brazil's mother country, Portugal, have all inquired about Mobral. Foreign observers may need convincing, but at least one Brazilian legislator is certain of the program's value. When the town council of the city of Campinas convenes, Councilwoman Clara de Oliveira says she will propose the inclusion of 150 prostitutes in the program. She is convinced that the ladies assumed their profession for want of education...
There, under the protection of Dictator General Alfredo Stroessner, he holds Paraguayan citizenship in his own name and is reputed to live on a tightly guarded estate said to be a haunt for former Nazis near the Brazilian border. He frequently slips out of the country for rendezvous with his wealthy family, despite a $70,000 Israeli-German reward for his capture...
...elusive Castaneda confounds one's expectations: he is no hairy freak, but a voluble Brazilian-Italian given to white shirts, gray suits and highly polished black shoes. He rarely touches coffee-let alone grass-and confesses that he would be "terrified" to take peyote except under Don Juan's guidance. The phrase "drug culture" is ceaselessly bandied about in America. It is a swollen cliché, and not very descriptive either. Culture, as Castaneda would say, is consensus. Instead we have abundant drug use, which is a different matter...
...military regime now ruling Brazil has ordered Kubitschek not to become involved in Brazilian politics, John Womack Jr. '59, professor of History who introduced Kubitschek yesterday, said, "In the fifties I was an actor. Now I am a spectator," Kubitschek said...
...biophysicists attending a four-day conference on parapsychological medicine at Stanford University last week, few were ready to endorse Arigó's methods. But they were willing to listen as Dr. Henry Puharich, formerly on the faculty of New York University Medical Center, confirmed some of the Brazilian's cures...