Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would anyone want to be President of Brazil? Of the nation's 13 Pres idents since World War II, three have been overthrown by force, one committed suicide, two resigned, three have had their civil rights revoked, five served temporary terms of three days to three months, and the current officeholder, Marshal Humberto Castello Branco, cannot wait to get out. For all the disadvantages, however, not until this year has there ever been a shortage of candidates...
...Brazil's government is willing to offer most anything to help in the economic development of the country's impoverished Nordeste-or Northeast-area, a territory more than twice the size of Texas where some 26,500,000 people have a per capita average income of $140 a year...
...once-separate faculties that jealously cling to their own identities and offer duplicate courses. At the University of São Paulo, which consists of 16 separate institutes and 68 affiliated units, chemistry courses are taught in 22 different buildings. Costs consequently multiply. Some third-rate regional universities in Brazil spend up to $4,000 per student for each year of study-about the annual cost of an education at Harvard...
Another hopeful sign is the widespread awareness of the need for further improvement. Last month Chile observed a national "University Reform Week," and Brazil's National Education Council recently proposed a law requiring the country's 18 federal universities to present plans for reorganization or lose federal funds. Until these programs bear results, concludes Alberto Lleras Camargo, former President of Colombia, Latin American schools will continue "on a chaotic path that is almost classic in the world-universities of authorities without authority and students who do not want to study, locked in a constant and sterile battle...
...Pentagon's reassuring statements about UFOs are designed to hoodwink the public into supposing that they are psychological, meteoric, or astral in origin. Nor is sinister Air Force activity confined to the U.S. "What," he asks, "was the mysterious substance that dribbled from a crippled disk over Brazil in 1954?" The Brazilian air force gathered it up and hid it away. (It may have been tin.) The Australian, French, and Indian air forces are also in cahoots with the U.S. Even the Kremlin is involved in a secret pact with the infidel against the UFOs...