Word: carioca
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...loosed a popular hue & cry. Said Rio's Diario Carioca: "The poor were seized with panic, since it cut off their only convenient, practical, inexpensive way to care for their health." Tongue-in-cheek Columnist Rubem Braga, in Diretrizes, suggested "installation of public injection centers, thus permitting the formation of long queues which could join with all the other queues into which the population has been marshaled...
...just as intent on putting Rio's 150,000 unruly partisans in their place. Rio's police chief, somber José Pereira Lira, ordered them to meet in the remote beachside suburb of Ipanema. The Communists refused, scattered thousands of handbills calling all proletarians to downtown Carioca Square...
TIME Correspondent Donald Newton arrived a half hour early, and took up his stand before a restaurant on the square, the Taverna Carioca. A hot wind, the kind cariocas call a suicide wind, blew down from the mountains and put everyone on edge. In the crowded square hundreds were lined up to catch streetcars home. The cops were there already...
Once again freedom of the press put the dictator on the spot. Snorted Rio's Diario Carioca: "The 'Additional Act' is stillborn." Snapped former deputy Dario de Almeida Magalhaes: "The 'Additional Act' . . . Additional to what? ... To a constitution which doesn't exist!" Sneered sober old-line statesman Virgilio de Mello Franco: "All the fascism that can be maintained has been maintained...
...still unscheduled elections. Names of hitherto unmentionable oppositionists, like ex-Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and deposed Air Chief Eduardo Gomes, were headlined. Brazilians bought early editions by the handful, read them goggle-eyed. Gasped one: "I can't stand it! There's too much oxygen!" Said Diario Carioca: "The youngest of us never even knew of such freedom except by hearsay or reading foreign news. It was like waking suddenly from a long dream, like waking and opening our eyes to the light...