Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday, a victory for partition looked probable. But when the Assembly president, Brazil's Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, was about to call for a vote, the Arabs won another delay. France's Alexandre Parodi rose. France, afraid of unrest among her 13,000,000 Moslem nationals in North Africa, hesitated to support partition. "We have come to the moment of decision," said Parodi, "and I feel certain misgivings. . . ." Was there really no possible ground for compromise, he wondered? Parodi got a 24-hour recess...
...unbend, at a bibulous evening in the Hampstead House apartment of Luxembourg's Prince Jean, whose playful guests turned the soda siphons on each other. Also present, and splashed, was Princess Thereza d'Orléans e Bragança, youngest sister of a claimant to Brazil's long extinct throne and of the Comtesse de Paris. Mayfair gossips said that 28-year-old, moderately good looking, very rich Thereza had been picked for Michael's queen by Michael's experienced, appreciative papa, ex-King Carol. Thereza said there was no truth in the rumors...
Science International. Actually, UNESCO's $100,000 was just a drop in the institute's bucket. Brazil would ante up $700,000 during the project's first year. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and the Guianas, which border the Amazon basin, would kick in too. The "real progress," as Dr. Carneiro pointed out, was that the institute would be "the world's first truly international scientific undertaking...
Life Begins at 59. The Army's ouster of Getulio Vargas two years ago was Mangabeira's invitation to pick up, at 59, the political career cut short 15 years before. Since then, he has worked fast-guiding U.D.N., helping to write Brazil's new constitution, getting himself elected governor of Bahia...
...Vargas-Communist candidate (for vice governor of São Paulo) was taking a shellacking, although the count is not yet official. The heat might be off for the moment, but Octávio Mangabeira only worked harder. "They used to say that Brazil couldn't get rid of a dictator," he said. "Then they said we couldn't write a workable constitution. Few thought Brazil would ever again have a free press. We have done all that. Now we are faced with the fourth great step along the road to democracy-a constitutional program for governing. Brazil...