Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millions of children each year. Minneapolis-based Archer-Daniels-Midland is shipping a protein-enriched powdered-soybean beverage to countries as far off as Korea. Corn Products Co. is working on hybrid seeds to improve corn yields in South America, recently brought out an enriched version of a familiar Brazilian baby food called Maizena. Says Executive Vice President Beverly Warner: "Unless you take 30 years to educate people, you must give them nutritional foods through things they are accustomed...
...wealth-which might indicate, for example, that the owner of a $75,000 Copacabana Beach apartment really earned more than the $2,000 he declared on his tax form. At present, revenue agents are combing through membership lists in yacht and race-track clubs, checking the resources of Brazilian tourists abroad. Hostesses who once boasted about their cuisine now beg society columnists not to mention the delicacies served at their dinners...
...soaring architecture and modern planning, Brazil's nine-year-old inland capital, Brasilia, is still more of a collection of government buildings than a metropolis. To help the capital become a city, Brazilian Hotelman José Tjurs last week closed a deal to start building a $14 million project, which, when completed by 1976, will be a sort of Latin-style Rockefeller Center - and Tjurs' biggest holding...
...good rides they can get). Highly organized, deliciously complex and by its own lights unfailingly honest, the animal game has withstood all manner of crackdowns and shakedowns, grown into a $500 million-a-year business that employs roughly 1% of the nation's total working force. Millions of Brazilians play it every day, and almost all have at least a nodding acquaintance with their local bicheiros. "If you see two shacks lost somewhere in the backlands," a Brazilian diplomat once observed, "you can bet that a bicheiro lives in one of them and a steady bettor in the other...
...BRAZIL Volunteers will work with three Brazilian organizations in primarily rural areas of Malo Grosso region. Their work in agriculture and the homes arts will involve them in community development work as well...