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...average life span to an appalling 35 years. Most nordestinos wring a grudging subsistence from the land, which is alternately scorched by drought and ravaged by flood and yields one-fourth as much corn, one-fifth as much cotton as the average acre of U.S. farmland. "Our agriculture," said Ceará State Governor Virgílio Távora, "is just a bit more advanced than that of the Pharaohs...
Doctors & Actors. Brainy General Távora would undoubtedly win the presidency if voters were counted only in the northeast, where he appeals both as a native son (born in the state of Ceará) and as a man of principle and piety (his cousin is the auxiliary bishop of Rio). Outside the northeast, Távora has apparently failed to capture much working-class support, despite 1) his promise to impose profit sharing on employers and 2) campaign help from one of Brazil's most gifted demagogues, São Paulo Governor Janio Quadros, who took a leave...
...Cranston Jones visited the small, sunburned, impoverished and nearly starved village of Bica, in the Brazilian state of Ceará, without rain for three years. "With the proud hospitality of the backlands we were invited to share the only food in the village. The meal was xique-xique (cactus), grilled over a small fire and eaten with a morsel of desert rat. When we left, we gave the mayor what food we had in the car: some oranges and biscuits. He thanked us and said the gift would go to the village children...
...that has been fed for twelve months on such hors-d'oevres as the Dempsey-Tunney fight, the death of Rudolph Valentino, Queen Marie, the Hall-Mills case, Aimee McPherson, President Coolidge's sportive antics in the Adirondacks, and Peaches Browning, there must certainly appear symptoms that need the cear sort of diagnosis that Mr. Johnson has provided...
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