Word: braziller
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...rural schools. To shore up food production and boost rural living standards (most Venezuelan peons get about 1,200 calories a day), he pinned his hopes on mechanization. The U.S. State Department backed this program by putting Venezuela high on the Latin delivery list, right after Mexico and Brazil. This week a four-man commission prepared to leave for the U.S. to buy $120,000.000 worth of farm and industrial machinery. With the hemisphere's tidiest budget surplus, Venezuela would pay cash...
What lay behind all this TIME Correspondent Donald Newton told in a report from Rio on Brazil's life and hard times...
Phony Facade. The new Brazilian enthusiasm is industrialization. But the $110 million Volta Redonda steel plant, five years abuilding, designed to make Brazil self-sufficient in steel, has yet to be inaugurated. The $13 million Quitandinha Hotel, which was to attract all the world's wealthy tourists, is virtually empty. The National Motor Factory-one of the world's most modern-has produced by itself one airplane engine in three years of operation. There is a huge movie studio outside São Paulo, brand-new and abandoned...
...samba has been Brazil's favorite rhythm so long that even hymns and the national anthem now bounce in samba time. Last week in Rio de Janeiro for the first time in six years, a tango swept the town. Cariocas crowded the Teatro Carlos Gomez, an old vaudeville house in the old quarter of downtown Rio to hear a pretty, black-eyed Argentine import named Chola Luna sing the hit tune Adiós, Pampa...
Bidu Sayao: Celebrated Operatic Arias (with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fausto Cleva conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). With the help of recording engineers, who build up her graceful little voice, Brazil's Bidu comes through handsomely. The eight arias are mostly from the roles (in Manon, La Bohème) which made Sayao famous at the Met. Performance: good...