Word: costa
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Latin America looms large in this issue. In addition to the Punta del Este story, written by David B. Tinnin, there is a cover story on Brazil's President Costa e Silva (with eight pages of color photographs), written by Philip Osborne and edited by Edward Jamieson. All told, 27 TIME reporters, photographers, writers, researchers and editors worked on these stories...
...night of the historic Punta del Este conference of hemisphere chiefs, Latin American leaders surrounded him and embraced him in one passionate abrazo after another. When they finally turned him loose, their wives besieged him for autographs. "This has been so beautiful," sighed Brazil's President Arthur da Costa e Silva. Said Mexico's Gustavo Diaz Ordaz: "President Johnson is showing heart for Latin America...
...execute his command, Costa passed over all of Castello Branco's old ministers and picked a new set of faces and personalities for his Cabinet-some of whom had voiced opposition to Castello Branco. In as Foreign Minister came Banker Jose Magalhaes Pinto, who had called Castello Branco's government reactionary. As his Minister of Planning, Costa picked Economist Helio Beltrao, who feels that Castello Branco's stiff austerity policies should be relaxed...
...Long." Ironically enough, it took a member of one of Genoa's most conservative old-line families, Shipping Magnate Giacomo Costa, 61, to make the first move to clean up the city's mercantile morass. For Genoa, Costa's scheme was downright startling. Concluding that the only long-term solution to the city's port problem was to look for space elsewhere, he got the backing of 170 leading Genoese businessmen, built a new landlocked "port" on the other side of the Apennines, 40 miles inland at Rivalta Scrivia. Linked...
...operation just four months, the $12 million venture is moving only 20,000 tons of cargo a month, but Costa predicts that volume will at least triple by 1970. As much sense as Rivalta Scrivia makes, many of Genoa's stodgier merchants have characteristically fought its development every step of the way. But Costa is determined to see it through. "For too long we have regarded the port as a place to make money," says he. "The time has come to begin thinking about what service we can offer." And of course making more money in the process...