Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably fewer than 10% of the people practice what the church preaches. Thousands turn out for such semireligious spectaculars as Lima's festival honoring Our Lord of the Miracles, but grandmothers and schoolchildren are often about the only worshipers at Sunday Mass in the ancient, silent churches. In Brazil, perhaps 25 million people are devotees of a voodoo cult called macumba. Across the continent, the zealous, fundamentalist Pentecostal sects constitute the fastest-growing faith...
Like the actual event on which it is tenuously based, the picture begins brightly. A company treasurer (Robert Morse) is in the process of absconding to Brazil with the company funds when the power failure overtakes him at the scene of the crime. He quickly gloms an abandoned auto from a traffic jam and heads for Boston, where an airport is still functioning. But he gets only as far as the exurbs...
...present nuclear powers. The pact also promises have-nots the full peaceful benefits of the atom, while committing the nuclear powers to move forward toward effective arms limitation and disarmament. France and Red China refused to sign the treaty, while several nonnuclear powers, notably West Germany, India and Brazil, have objected that as signatory nations they would be left vulnerable to enemy attack...
...multinational banking combine when it helped to found the Societe Financiere Europeenne in Paris. The Dresdner's year-old Luxembourg subsidiary is thriving in the fast-expanding Eurobond and Eurodollar markets. Increasing its stake in Latin America, the bank last year bought an interest in local banks in Brazil, Chile and Colombia...
Costa's Cabinet, going even further, urged an immediate reform of the country's educational system, arguing, with hindsight, that all the government's plans for technological development were jeopardized by Brazil's educational deficiencies. As a measure of good intentions, Costa ordered Dutra's ""Education Ministry to hand over to universities the operating funds that had been held up during the disorders...