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Black Orpheus. The Greek legend, reset by Marcel Camus, a French director of The New Wave, comes to new life in the whirling bodies and pounding drums of Brazilian Negroes (TIME...
Black Orpheus (French). Director Marcel Camus (no kin to Novelist-Playwright Albert) has fashioned an impressive, wildly poetic film from a Brazilian poet's adaptation of the Orpheus legend. The unknown but graceful cast, and the breathtaking image presented of Negro life during a tropical carnival earned it the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes...
...Toledo's Jeep-making Willys Motors surveyed the Brazilian market and with its distributors in Brazil organized Willys-Overland do Brasil, capitalized at $250,000, more than 50% from the U.S. mother firm, the rest from Brazilians. Now Willys do Brasil is South America's biggest carmaker (110,000 units scheduled for 1960), has a capitalization of $34 million, 55% owned by Brazilians, 35% by Willys of U.S., 10% by French investors. Half of its 6,000 Brazilian workers own shares, 95% of the Jeep parts are locally made, and Brazilians proudly call the product o Jipe Brasileiro...
...final member of the top five is Brazilian-born Jorge Lemann, primarily a tennis player, as are Vinton and Gallwey...
Died. Heitor Villa-Lobos, 72, self-taught, prolific Brazilian composer who combined the counterpoint of Bach with the vigorous rhythms of native Brazilian music in more than 2,000 works (Bachianas Brasileiras, Seréstas), gloried in the fact that he constantly shifted his style, followed no one line of development or school, founded the Brazilian National Academy of Music, directed massive choruses drawn from all levels of the population; in Rio de Janeiro. In a life of strenuous activity, Villa-Lobos lived up to his own code: "Life is a gamble, and I'm for gambling." He voyaged...