Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more expensive publicity man (Russell Birdwell; fee: $35,000) to get them admitted to the U.S., but he failed. The couple went to Mexico City, where they lived quietly in the dignified old suburb of Coyoacan. Invitations to their small, candlelit parties were sought eagerly. Later they went to Brazil, where they stayed at Rio's Copacabana Palace...
...Under Brazilian law, if a couple, one of whom is dying, wish to marry, they can declare that intention before six witnesses. A court then decides whether to make the marriage legal. Divorce does not exist in Brazil, and both Carol and Magda have been divorced; however, Brazilian courts sometimes recognize the divorces of foreigners. A knottier gimmick in the Carol-Magda nuptials is a Brazilian legal provision that the deathbed wedding procedure is invalidated if the ill spouse recovers...
General Eisenhower bore down on the importance of having U.S. military missions in each of the 20 republics. Navy Secretary James Forrestal pointed out that 100 surplus U.S. warships in friendly Latin navies (including two cruisers to Brazil, one apiece to Chile, Peru, none for Argentina) would help protect the Panama Canal. Secretary of State Marshall summed up: "The opportunity to give material assistance to the foreign policy of our country at so little cost should not now be lost." The new bill, as Marshall pointed out, set Army expenditure at only $10,000,000 a year "for a period...
...Congress has shown no great enthusiasm for the vast loans or grants with which the Administration wants to do the job. But a drop in exports may cause it to change its mind. The drop is not far off. Last week, Brazil and Argentina got ready to cut their U.S. imports. Canada is seeking means to do the same. Britain is surveying all its imports with an eye to slashing them about $800 million a year; any cuts it makes will be deepest on imports from...
...which Harrison helped design, was now a much admired part of Manhattan's jagged-edged landscapes but it had raised storms of protest back in 1931. Within Harrison's ten-man team there was a basic unanimity; all ten shared his liking for strict functionalism. Among them: Brazil's brilliant young (39) Oscar Niemeyer, and France's Le Corbusier (real name, Charles Edouard Jeanneret), who invented functionalism's favorite phrase when he described modern houses as "machines for living...