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...automotive history ($100 million for 53,000 trucks) is stocky, tanned Valentim Bouças (pronounced Bo-sas), International Business Machines' vice president in Brazil. He has made a fortune for himself and I.B.M. as a supersalesman and for years he has been an unofficial economic adviser to Brazilian Governments. Few businessmen have as many good contacts in Brazil...
...Brazilian Government is not going into the trucking business. Once assembled in Ford and General Motors plants at Sao Paulo (at the rate of 160 a day), the trucks will be sold at ceiling prices to any ready buyer...
Rebel Talk. Brazilian newsmen, who had flown to rebel headquarters, reported that the city swarmed with insurgent troops, "obviously in the last stages of preparation for a march on Asuncion." Before much blood was spilled (only one patrol clash had been reported), Government and rebels might still arrive at some kind of an understanding. Wily Dictator Morinigo was reported to have sent emissaries to the rebels. He also sent a mission to Buenos Aires to ask help from Argentina. If Buenos Aires gave him no hope (and there was no indication that it would), Morinigo would talk seriously with Concepcion...
Married. Maria do Carmo da Cunha (Carmen Miranda), 33, turbaned Brazilian cinema songstress; and David Sebastian, 38, film producer; both for the first time; in Los Angeles...
...first, the Brazilian press swallowed the D.P.s' line and echoed their complaints in big headlines. Later, the press took second thought. Said 0 Globo: "These countrymen aim . . . to set Brazilian opinion against our allies. . . . Their preoccupation [is] with preserving National Socialism...