Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer such questions, Pope-Hennessy turns again and again to the same motive: profit. Shipbuilders in Liverpool, French sugar planters in the West Indies, rum manufacturers in Massachusetts (there were 63 distilleries there in 1750), coffee growers in Brazil, to say nothing of owners of cotton, rice and tobacco plantations in the South-all were dependent, directly or indirectly, upon the slave trade. All their quoted comments, says the disapproving author, ring with "the eternal voice of the middleman, the levelheaded, grating speech of money...
...different opinions." The one piece of legislation that carries his name- the Hickenlooper Amendment to the 1962 foreign aid bill-cuts off aid to any country that expropriates U.S. property. The amendment forced Ceylon to reverse an expropriation of U.S.-owned oil depots and gas stations and compelled Brazil to reconsider a threatened seizure...
...Janeiro newspaper in 1966, it seemed to a lot of soccer fans that Edson Arantes do Nascimento, alias Pelé, alias the King, was indeed dead-or at least he had lost his crown. The exciting, agile, acrobatic youth who almost single-handed won Brazil the World Cup in 1958 and led his Santos team to two world professional-club championships was now 27, married, rich, overweight -naturally-and the goat of Brazil's loss to Hungary in the 1966 World Cup playoffs. The spotlight moved from Pelé to the pretenders: England's Bobby Charlton, Portugal...
Everyone involved seems satisfied with the arrangement except, perhaps, Founder Bedas. Since the bank's closing he has been to Brazil and to Switzerland, where he was recently arrested for, of all things, illegal parking. Bedas is still being held while Swiss authorities consider an extradition request from Lebanon, which wants him on a criminal charge of fraudulent bankruptcy. But it is doubtful that Bedas will be extradited, or tried if he is. So much and so many were probably involved in Intra Bank's collapse that, with the bank in business again, Lebanon would just as soon...
...suggests a U.S. executive in Brazil. "Brains are international...