Word: brazilianizing
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...most severe economic reforms yet attempted by Brazil's revolutionary government. In a special decree, President Humberto Castello Branco ordered the country's big Panair do Brasil airline to cease operations immediately, grounded its planes, and turned over its domestic and international routes to other Brazilian lines...
...more are expected to sign up by the end of this year. Alianza officials in Washington establish the first contacts between the state governments and their Latin American opposite numbers. Utah is paired with Bolivia because both have a mountainous, mining economy; Illinois is matched with the big Brazilian state of São Paulo, whose booming highly industrialized capital city is Latin America's closest facsimile of Chicago. Most of the U.S. states then send a delegation down south to see how they can be useful, then get in touch with local organizations at home...
Died. Augusto Frederico Schmidt, 58, Brazilian poet, politician and entrepreneur, a smalltime merchant's son who wormed his way into Rio society with critically acclaimed verse, through his contacts built up a huge business complex (15 supermarkets in Rio alone), in the 1950s became President Juscelino Kubitschek's top speech writer and the brains behind his "Operation Pan America," forerunner of the Alianza; of a heart attack...
...while a member of the Higher Institute of Brazilian Studies, he published Nationalism in Brazilian Reality, which questioned the wisdom of complete nationalization of Brazil's petroleum resources. The book failed to please extremists on either the left or the right, and touched off a heated debate in the course of which Jaguaribe resigned from the Institute. The Institute was later abolished by the 1964 revolutionary forces because of alleged Marxist control...
...most serious problem, according to Jaguaribe, is that the present Brazilian government wants to develop the country and still maintain class differences. "Sadly, they have little opposition due to a lack of political consciousness on the part of the Latin American masses," he said...