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...spot-any spot-and the chances are good that there is a way to get there. Most popular are the traditional stopovers-London, Paris, Rome-though many of the bargain spots of yesteryear are now hopelessly overcrowded. Out this season, says Fielding, are Torremolinos on Spain's Costa del Sol ("It has been overrun by the beats and the yé-yés; there are five different sexes there at least"), the French Riviera ("fading fast"), Italy's Adriatic coast below Venice ("absolutely overrun with Germans"), the islands of Ibiza and Majorca ("This stabs...
SPAIN is still a bargain, overcrowded along the Costa Brava and jam-packed in Madrid ("Its season used to be winter," reports Fielding. "Now it is difficult to get hotel accommodations any time. Madrid is going crazy"). Favored this year by the rich and beautiful people: Sotogrande del Guadiaro on the Costa del Sol, a region that boasts 3,200 acres overlooking the Rock of Gibraltar, several fine hotels, two golf courses and fine swimming. Equally In: nearby Marbella (the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will be there...
Some fear that Costa may try to build too much, or that he will be more concerned with winning friends than winning the battle against inflation. He was no sooner in office than he counter manded a Castello Branco order and rehired-at least temporarily-1,500 surplus social security workers who had just been fired. He also suspended a special 15% profit tax that Castello Branco had put through, held up a fare hike on some government rail lines and hinted that he might even double the country's minimum wage to $148 a month. But the military...
...than it did 30 years ago. Moreover, one-fourth of what it does produce spoils before it reaches market because of poor transportation and storage facilities. One of the few crops that Brazil produces in abundance-coffee-is too abundant; saddled with $220 million a year in coffee supports, Costa's government is paying farmers to uproot thousands of acres of coffee bushes and cut production...
...Costa has made a point that he will vigorously push "all measures that increase agriculture and cattle production, as well as raise productivity." To expand Brazil's backward agriculture, he plans to step up the pace of a two-year-old land-reform program, aimed at extending credit to small farmers, providing them with technical guidance and breaking up the country's huge estates. It will be a much harder and longer task to eradicate the inevitable result of Brazil's farm troubles: the sprawling belts of poverty and misery throughout the countryside, where 50% of Brazil...