Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began fortnight ago with 16 national teams in the running. By late last week, the only teams with a hope of victory were Britain, Portugal, the Soviet Union and West Germany. To the despair of their supporters, the others had fallen to noisy defeat. The loudest wails came from Brazil, whose team had won the cup in 1958 and 1962. A loss to Portugal became a nationwide calamity. From office buildings in Rio and São Paulo, clouds of black carbon paper and typewriter ribbon cascaded onto the streets below; flags were lowered to half-mast, and people wept...
...probably speaking with Lincoln Gordon, U.S. Undersecretary of Latin American Affairs and Senators Jacob K. Javits, Robert F. Kennedy '48, and Edward M. Kennedy '54. On August 3 they will begin a few days' visit to the U.N. and various museums in New York before their return flight to Brazil...
...Brazilian students, who will be studying at Harvard from July 10 to July 23, have been brought to the United States for a month through the cooperation of the Interamerican University Foundation and its counter-part -- A.U.I. -- in Brazil...
...students, Mrs. Washburn, explained, are in the professional stage of their academic training, but in Brazil their position is not distinguished from the undergraduate, as it is here. Each of the students, has been selected out of some 2000 applicants for their political and community activity...
From a force that grew to 30,000 men at the height of the civil war 13 months ago, the OAS troop contingent last week was down to 6,300 from the U.S., 1,150 troops from Brazil, and token forces from Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Paraguay. At week's end two Navy landing craft were on their way from Norfolk, Va., to begin the evacuation...