Word: brazilianizing
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Paper Blizzards. After landing at Galeao airport, the presidential party was taken across the bay in a Brazilian naval launch. At the Touring Club dock, Harry Truman hopped out briskly, strode up the red-carpeted gangplank to greet Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his wife "Dona Santinha." Sitting side by side, the two Presidents drove for six miles along the flag-lined streets between long lines of Brazilian soldiery. Cheering crowds lined every inch of the way. Blizzards of paper fell from the taller buildings. Standing up in the car, Harry Truman waved amiably to yells...
Then he left hurriedly for the trip back to Rio and the Missouri, where he was scheduled to receive 500 delegates and Brazilian notables for luncheon. In the harbor, the fog had closed down and a cold wind was blowing. Many of Brazil's gayest hats were bedraggled by the time the guests managed to jump from bobbing launches to the Missouri's gangway. Brazilians visibly regretted the lack of wine, but consoled themselves with huge amounts of American coffee...
...there was more business to transact on the tight, if pleasurable, schedule mapped out by U.S. Ambassador William D. Pawley. Addressing the joint session of the Brazilian Congress, the President recalled Brazil's contribution in bases, materials, and men in World War II, brought down the house when he said simply and directly: "And I'm here to say that we don't forget our friends when they have been friends in need." That night, there was a formal state dinner at Itamarati Palace. Over champagne, Truman cordially invited Dutra and his family to visit...
...first book, The Brazilians: People of Tomorrow (John Day; $3), published last week in Manhattan, Dr. Tavares gives a plain, tough appraisal of his country that is bound to wound Brazilian sensibilities. Tavares is a descendant of the famous 17th Century colonial commander, Albuquerque Maranhão. Not many Brazilians without such background would have dared to point out so boldly that...
...family is the most pervasive institution in Brazilian life. Yet many a husband is accustomed to seek sexual and social relations outside the home-the poor and middle-class at the clublike bordellos, the rich man with his mistress. Divorce is not recognized...