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Carlos Lacerda, former governor of Guanabara, Brazil, will discuss Brazilian politics and the recent Punta del Este conference with Albert Hirschman, professor of political economy, and Evon Vogt, professor of social anthropology, at 8 p.m. tonight in the Leverett House Old Library...
Last week, in the comfortable Sao Paulo suburb of Brooklin, Brazilian plainclothes police, acting on information provided by Wiesenthal, picked up Stangl. He had just returned home from his mechanic's job at a Volkswagen plant, was relieved to discover that the cops were not Israeli agents, like the ones who had nabbed Adolf Eichmann. Said Stangl: "I knew I would be captured." Sighed his wife: "Franz was always an excellent head of the family, although a little too austere...
...quotas allow it to sell only about 60% of its average 30-million-bag crops, the growers could not care less. A beneficent government has always stepped in to buy and store the huge excess. But such generosity is coming to an end. With $70 million in government backing, Brazilian Coffee Institute President Leonidas Borio has pioneered a campaign to "break the old taboo that only coffee is important." More with Less. Under the plan, growers are being offered up to 220 for each of Brazil's 3.7 billion coffee trees that they plow under. The idea...
...three times larger than Italy, the state railroad moves on a total of 220 miles of track. The armchair traveler learns that dueling is still legal in Uruguay, that Bolivian jails do not feed the prisoners (who must depend on handouts from friends or relatives), and that Recife, a Brazilian coast city of 1,000,000 population, has 40,000 registered prostitutes. Colombia boasts more than 700 varieties of orchids. Venezuela, on the other hand, has 32 kinds of eagles. In the Argentine, parents boost their offsprings' grades by bribing the schoolteacher; the price of a loaf of bread...
...this new novel, his fifth to be issued in the U.S., Amado, 54, tells tall tales of Bahia, the great, sun-drenched seaport that the Brazilian government calls Salvador. The first of his three themes deals with the astonishing marriage of Corporal Martim-a cardsharp and famed capoeria* fighter-to Marialva, who is as beautiful as a saint in a procession but as dark and devious as Lilith. This story soon blends with one about Negro Massu and the christening of his blue-eyed son. There are problems here, since Ogun, the Voodoo god of iron, has been named godfather...