Word: costa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were complications. Castello Branco, who is honest and, for a general, fairly liberal, shares control of the Brazilian army with his hard-lining, hard-living war minister, General Artur Costa e Silva. The two men have never quarreled in public, but they have seldom agreed in private, and when Costa e Silva announced his candidacy for this year's presidential elections, eyebrows went up all over Brazil. At first there was speculation that Costa e Silva, who neither understands nor sympathizes with the government's attempts to stabilize the economy, might run as candidate for the opposition...
Temporary Compromise. That, of course, put Castello Branco in a fix. He had already declared himself out of the running, and so he began to look around for a presidential candidate who would continue the economic reforms that Costa e Silva resists. Now there was a new twist that only a Brazilian could properly savor: the President himself recruiting a candidate to run against his own government party. Not only that, but since Castello Branco has already decreed that the President is to be elected by Congress instead of by popular vote, and since Castello Branco controls Congress, he could...
Like almost all other aerospace companies, Lockheed is expending money and energy on projects that have little to do with air, much less space. Company engineers devised a computerized system for the Alameda-Contra Costa Counties (Calif.) Blood Bank that cut inventory losses in half in two months by keeping track of supplies; using that system, every blood bank in the U.S. could theoretically run from the same computer. Lockheed last year concocted plans for a statewide information-retrieval system that would theoretically enable California to keep a Big Brother-like watch on its citizens; with the help of computerized...
...Madrid the joke was that the farmers of Almeria were no longer growing tomatoes but, rather, mushrooms. Another yuk had it that residents of the Mediterranean coast near Almeria had renamed their region "Costa Boom." It was something to laugh about all right-a missing American H-bomb...
After graduating from the University of Michigan, Vaughn enlisted in the Marine Corps, was twice wounded on Okinawa, and was eventually discharged as a captain. He earned his master's degree at the University of Michigan in 1941, then spent ten years in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Panama as a U.S. Information Service officer and coordinator of U.S. aid projects. In 1961, Shriver grabbed him. Says Vaughn: "The Peace Corps idea had great appeal to me, and the people I knew who were putting this idea into effect appealed to me even more...