Word: camargo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MARIO CAMARGO Poughkeepsie...
...with security police. No one had forgotten last summer's mass demonstrations (TIME, July 5). From all over Brazil, 739 student leaders descended on a remote farm in the heart of the artichoke country 40 miles southwest of São Paulo. As Police Commissioner Otávio Camargo later described the scene, "Boys and girls were heaped up in the farmhouse, sleeping in canvas beds or on the floor, and since there wasn't enough room in the house, many took cover in corrals. There were pigs in one pen, people in the next." The youths...
...lush, low valleys of the U.S.-Mexican border. But Beulah died hard. Last week, as her final throes dumped 30-in. cloudbursts on the area, the worst floods in Texas' history came smashing down the usually somnolent Rio Grande River. From upstream Rio Grande City and Camargo down to Brownsville and Matamoros at the Gulf, south Texas and Mexico were wracked by a disaster more devastating than the hurricane...
...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...
...earned a fortune of more than $2,000,000. Money, he said, should be valued not as a possession but "as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life." He took pleasure in assembling the world's finest collection of Newton's manuscripts and in organizing London's Camargo Ballet and Cambridge's Arts Theater. Later, the government tapped him to head Britain's Arts Council, and in 1942 King George VI made him a lord...