Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...labor camps, or even because of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. The conservatives who voted for the amendment are hardly more consistent. While usually ready enough to put pressure on the Soviet Union, they resist similar actions proposed by liberals against right-wing regimes, for instance, in Greece or Brazil...
...Letter bombs: one death of an Israeli diplomat in London two weeks ago. All together, 51 letter bombs have been discovered addressed to Israeli diplomats round the world; eight turned up last week in Washington, D.C., Australia and Brazil...
...eight, he was learning to drive by backing the car out of the family garage in São Paulo. He was building and racing go-karts at 15, speedy competition cars by the time he was 20. At 22, he put together $3,300 and left Brazil for Britain to break into big-time European racing. Today, little more than three years later, Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi is the most successful race-car driver in the world. Last week he wheeled his Lotus around the 3.51-mile track at Monza, Italy, to win both the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix...
...Brazil's new hero comes by his chosen profession naturally enough. His father, a former competition driver, is a motor-racing journalist and broadcaster. His mother, who named her son after Ralph Waldo Emerson, has raced sports cars. His older brother Wilson, 28, also races on the Grand Prix circuit. The elder Fittipaldis tried to interest their sons in a less violent form of racing-in sailboats. It did not work. "We always finished last," Emerson remembers. "We were a disaster sailing." Last is a position Emerson is not likely to see in his accelerating career on the road...
Galvao never made it. He had engine trouble and problems with the 900 captive traveling companions he had brought along. He was forced to land at Recife, Brazil, where the government gave him anylum, but returned the ship to the Portuguese...