Word: cruzeiro
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...recorded with his camera the often noted but still incredible squalor in which the favelados live-within a ten-minute drive of Rio's beautiful Copacabana Beach. But if Brazilians were stung by the truths of LIFE'S camera, by last week in the pages of O Cruzeiro (circ. 700,000), Brazil's largest picture magazine, they were reaping the rich satisfaction of having retaliated specifically in kind...
...precise imitation of Parks's performance, O Cruzeiro sent one of its own cameramen, Henri Ballot, to New York. There on Manhattan's Lower East Side, "five minutes by car from Wall Street," Ballot found exactly what he was sent to find: a New York family living in the same poverty and filth that LIFE'S camera had shown in the Rio slum. Photographer Ballot sighted in on the family of Felix Gonzales, 53, a Puerto Rican immigrant and part-time car washer...
...Brasilia airport. When Che finally arrived without warning the next day, only a few mechanics were on hand. Quadros later put on his best blue serge to greet him, and give him an ardent reception, along with Brazil's highest award for foreigners, the order of the Cruzeiro...
...years of his one-man rule of Portugal. He confronted growing unrest at home, bloody rebellion in his big African colony of Angola, found few sympathetic world allies anywhere except in South Africa. But in his first interview in five years (to Brazil's 0 Cruzeiro Correspondent Mario de Moraes) the old autocrat was as acid and abrasive as ever...
...Actually those of Thomas de la Rue & Co. Ltd. of London, which last year stopped printing 1 and 2 cruzeiro notes when someone discovered that they cost Brazil 1.2 cruzeiros apiece...