Word: cruzeiro
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Candidate Barros campaigned with flamboyant confidence, proclaimed himself the next Brazilian President (by law, President Joâo Café Filho cannot succeed himself), and offered a 1,000,000-cruzeiro ($55,000) reward to anyone who could prove him a thief. Taking a broom as his campaign's cleanup symbol, Quadros appealed to the downtrodden with such rabble-rousing slogans as "War on the Corrupt Rich!" It was a close race, undecided until last week; Jânio's margin was a mere 18,304 votes out of nearly 2,000,000 cast. Promised...
...week's end, Aranha had promised to pay even if he had to dip into Brazil's gold reserves. When he said he would not devalue the currency now, the cruzeiro free-rate firmed up from 52 to 45 to the dollar. In a move to trim ship, he decided to unload Brazil's overpriced cotton stocks on the world market, though it might mean taking a $27 million loss on the treasury books. It was a tough line, but it won support at home and abroad. President Getulio Vargas called in his old-time lieutenant...
...pictures of untamed Amazonian Indians for Rio's weekly picture magazine 0 Cruzeiro (circ. 350,000), Staff Photographer Jose Medeiros has made ten trips deep into the jungles of Central Brazil. On an expedition to the upper reaches of the Xingu River three weeks ago, it occurred to him that he might "do better than just bring back pictures." Two days later, he turned up in Rio with two large-as-life, fresh-from-the-jungle Camaiura Indian bucks...
...wants to know how a man gets along with his neighbors,, how his crops are coming, he calls by first name many of the 15,000 settlers in the Colonia. Last week he was in Rio seeking money for the Colonia, for the Government had paid not a cruzeiro of the funds appropriated for it for this year...
...crack, French-born Photographer Jean Manzon, Barreto Pinto had posed in shorts, mugged in the bathtub, pranced weirdly on the beach. When the pictures were printed in the weekly O Cruzeiro, they were a sensation; copies of the 15? magazine sold...