Word: brazilianizing
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Under the new international bridge, the muddy Rio Uruguay raced in flood. But on the bridge Argentine troopers and Brazilian marines stood at immaculate attention. A strapping figure in the uniform of an Argentine general, and a tired little man in a dark civilian suit advanced toward each other. At midstream the two men snipped a ceremonial tape, then embraced. Thus, last week, after many postponements, Argentina's President Juan Perón and Brazil's President Caspar Eurico Dutra inaugurated the Augustin Justo bridge that links their countries...
...shuttled their daily loads of flour, oil, sugar and soap across the bridge. But Brazil and Argentina are South America's most powerful rivals, and many reasons of state had been found to delay the formal inaugural. Finally, it could be put off no longer. Said a bored Brazilian as Dutra winged south for the meeting: "I suppose somebody...
...border, both parties did their best. Perón poured drinks for the first Brazilian President to visit his country since Getulio Vargas went to B.A. in 1935. Latin oratory was spilled. When the two Presidents yanked a string to unveil a commemorative plaque, up flew 1,500 Brazilian pigeons painted in the two countries' national colors. For Eva Duarte de Perón, Dutra had a whopping aquamarine brooch encrusted with diamonds...
Born. To Celia Johnson, 38, chosen by New York film critics as 1946's best cinemactress (in J. Arthur Rank's Brief Encounter), and Author-Explorer Peter (Brazilian Adventure) Fleming, 39: their third child, a girl; in Oxfordshire...
...sunning himself in Miami at the time the Electoral Tribunal made up its mind on the Commies; the U.S. Embassy had maintained a scrupulous hands-off attitude toward the Government move; privately, Embassy officials felt there were better ways of fighting Communism than those employed by Dutra. If the Brazilian Army had drawn any conclusions from U.S. foreign policy-i.e., Truman's aid to Greece and Turkey-the deductions were not inspired...