Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa. Though rooted in the specifics of Brazil's wild interior, this collection of stories by the late author of The Devil to Pay in the Backlands bears an abundant crop of universal values...
...POPULATION PROBLEM. "Brazil-The Gathering Millions." This documentary traces the migration of farm workers from Brazil's hinterlands, where work is scarce, to urban areas where for some there is nothing but further despair. First in a six-part series on the problems of overpopulation in the world...
Candles and Cake. Neither, it seems, could anyone who got an invitation. Of notable names, there was no end: Umberto, ex-King of Italy; Juscelino Kubitschek, ex-President of Brazil; Stavros Niarchos, ex-husband of Charlotte Ford Niarchos. For titles, there were the Maharanee of Baroda, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Princess Ira von Furstenberg and Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes. Salvador Dali materialized, so to speak. So did Hollywood Director Vincente Minnelli, Sonja Henie, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Audrey Hepburn, Françoise Sagan and Penelope Tree...
...child, Burt was thin, withdrawn and bookish. His father took the family all over the world-Hawaii, Brazil, France, Japan-as he climbed the ladder of a large chemical company. Three years ago, when Burt was 15, the family moved to Palos Verdes, an affluent suburb south of Los Angeles. Almost overnight the youngster was transformed. He taught himself to surf, put on 50 Ibs. of muscle and a deep tan, was elected to the student council and began dating the prettiest girls. Though his grades slipped to the low B range, his parents were delighted...
...consortium of Canadian and European banks has invested some $28 million in a mill to turn sisal into paper pulp. In neighboring Kenya, the world's fourth largest sisal producer, experiments aimed at producing fodder and fertilizer from sisal fibers are under way. Other leading sisal producers, including Brazil and Haiti, have agreed to pool their resources to promote their produce against the steady inroads of the synthetics...