Word: brazilianizing
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...attack. As they played their way toward the payoff rounds of the World Cup championship, the light-foot Latins had generated an awesome amount of ballyhoo. Now, in the semifinal game against France, Sweden's capital was getting its first chance to see just how good the Brazilian booters really were...
...Brazilian fans commandeered taxicabs to chase attractive women through the streets of the city, took squatters' rights in hotel rooms, only moved on orders from the police. When their team won, they wrapped themselves in Brazilian flags and stormed the team's dressing room in defiance of the rules...
Over rutted Brazilian jungle trails last week jounced a task force of clay-spattered, green-and-yellow jeeps, carrying as incongruous a crew as ever penetrated the steaming wilderness. They were securities salesmen, hardy young men carrying briefcases, who were on their way to sell a 208 million-cruzeiro ($1.6 million) issue of stock in Willys Overland do Brasil to back-country natives who had never even heard of Wall Street...
Until now the U.S. has been lukewarm to the idea of Pan American summit talks. Washington would prefer a meeting of foreign ministers for hard conference work, topping that meeting off with a symbolic gathering of Presidents afterward. The U.S. view is widely understood; Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Carlos de Macedo Soares resigned last week in protest over Kubitschek's call for presidential talks...
...Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. After he delivered the note, Rubottom talked privately in Kubitschek's office for 95 minutes, continued over a filet mignon luncheon in the palace dining room. The two set a time-the week of Aug. 4-for a Brazilian visit by Secretary of State Dulles, and agreed to the idea of a conference of the Americas' foreign ministers, possibly in Bogota, where Colombian President-elect Alberto Lleras Camargo is to be inaugurated Aug. 7. Still in the discussion stage: a meeting of chiefs of state after the foreign ministers...