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...stand-bys, good and evil, battle it out at the Brattle again, this time not in the usual French, but in Portuguese. Being Brazilian, Cangaceiro's bandit villains are a motley compound of both cowboy and Indian, which makes them, as usual, much more interesting than the somewhat insipid "good guys...
From Texas the Goularts move on to Kansas City, Detroit and New York (with a stopover in Canada). But with a more relaxed schedule, Goulart, who is also president of the Brazilian Labor Party, will have more time for what he calls his principal job: strengthening relations between the workers of Brazil and the workers...
...airplanes or thousands to buy a truck. In 1955 alone, Ex-Im authorized $371.1 million worth of individual loans, also handed out general lines of credit worth another $15-1-9 million to 130 U.S. exporters. An Argentine company got $60 million for a new steel mill; a Brazilian company got $1,222,000 for new U.S. buses; customers in Peru, Thailand, Turkey. Greece, Italy. Egypt borrowed funds ranging from $20 million down to $5,000 for everything from hospital equipment to coal-washing machines and textiles. The biggest private enterprise loan so far: $100 million last year...
...years that he has been running the gaudiest one-man show in Brazilian politics, Sáo Paulo's millionaire ex-Governor Adhemar de Barros has plopped in and out of hot water like a boardinghouse soup bone. Opponents hinted freely at slush funds, financial skulduggery, and the existence of a "little box" filled to overflowing with bundles of boodle for political pals. Even last year, when Adhemar (as all Brazilians call him) was running for the presidency, he faced a charge that, while governor from 1947 to 1951 he had passed out 3,000,000 cruzeiros' worth...
That same day an Air Force plane flew a leukemia victim from Italy to Germany for treatment. Air Force instructors trained Brazilian pilots in the use of jet fighters. Air Defense Command officers at Colorado Springs, Colo, attended a class in public speaking (explains ADC Commanding General Earle Partridge: "One of our generals went to Washington last week on a project involving $80 million. He had 15 minutes to make his pitch to the Pentagon. I want to be sure that he knows how to make a sale"). In Texas airmen struggled through an obstacle course on which the final...