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...military government in Brazil enforces its authoritarian power with clear-cut repression. In 1968, the military established rule by decree, shutting down Congress, abolishing political rights including habeas corpus for political prisoners, and bypassing the courts. Reports of the torture of prisoners continue to filter...
WALKER RIDEOUT Corpus Christi, Texas...
...fourth museum building by a leading international architect to rise in Texas in the past year (the other three are Louis Kahn's barrel-vaulted Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth [TIME, Jan. 15], Philip Johnson's white cubist Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi and Edward Durell Stone's stark brick Amarillo Art Center). Certainly the Mies building is the most problematic- an anthology of his vices and virtues...
...Terrell, who will be SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S next managing editor, joined the magazine in 1955 after serving as a Marine pilot in World War II and as a sportswriter and editor on the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. He became an SI senior editor in 1960, an assistant managing editor in 1963 and for the past three years has been executive editor. Terrell's versatility in writing about almost every known sport, his imagination and his journalistic judgment will surely continue to be a large ingredient of the magazine's success...
...introduced by the military dictators of Brazil. It vests vast power in a President, who in recent years has been appointed by the general staff rather than elected. When "national security" is in danger, the Brazilian code allows for suspension of such democratic rights as arrest warrants and habeas corpus and provides for censorship and trial by military courts...