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Brazil's Senate was coming to a boil over reports of U.S. investigations and potential boycotts of high-priced coffee. Then Senator Othon Mader rose to call attention to four U.S. housewives touring the coffee country as guests of the Brazilian government. "These donas de casa," said he. "represent a real power coming to examine our coffee problem. They may have such power as to change the opinion of the American Senate and even the Government itself...
Tour of Duty. The four clubwomen had landed from a DC-6 at Rio's inter national airport with pencils and notebooks ready, determined to get the facts. Each had a few well-chosen words for airport interviewers, and "Grannie" Swanbeck, like a veteran politico, hugged the first Brazilian baby in sight. The visitors tasted their first Brazilian black coffee and duly noted that a small cup cost 6?. After that they firmly told their hosts to tear up the leisurely itinerary that had been prepared. Instead of sightseeing or sambaing in nightclubs with gallants from the Chamber...
COFFEE prices may soar to $1.50 a Ib. within the next year. Brazilian coffeemen say that with inventories exhausted the losses from last June's frost are just beginning to be felt. They expect high prices for at least three years. Meanwhile, consumption keeps climbing; a supermarket survey shows coffee sales up 15% in the New York area, mostly because of scare-buying...
...tides of supply and demand. The fact is that Latin-American coffee drinkers are in much the same fix as their North American neighbors. In the past two months, the price of high-grade coffee in Rio groceries has leaped from 81? to $1.07 a Ib.; some Brazilians have gritted their teeth and turned to a hitherto unmentionable beverage called tea. In coffee-exporting Costa Rica. President José Figueres declared roundly: "Our country's No. 1 problem today is our coffee shortage." The local retail price had just climbed to 90? a Ib., and Figueres had tried...
...Delhi last week, Indian government officials pored over plans for a $150 million steel mill. Both Britons and Americans had wanted to build it, but lost out in the bidding. The winner: a group headed by Germany's famed old munitions maker, Krupp. In the busy Brazilian cities of Rio and São Paulo, bars were crowded with German businessmen speaking painfully correct Portuguese, while not far away another huge steel plant was being built by Germans. In Mexico, University City bustled with preparations for Germany's first big Latin American trade exposition since...