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...Branco is determined to put his country's economic house in order once and for all. To do the job, he has chosen Roberto de Oliveira Campos, 47, a brilliant economist and diplomat, who was Brazil's Ambassador to Washington until last December, when he quit in disgust at Goulart. As Minister of Economic Planning, Campos knows just how big a task he faces. In 31 months of Goulart, the value of the cruzeiro plummeted 83%, and the cost of living rose 340%. The confidence that had always helped Brazil grow in spite of itself disappeared...
Multiple Betrayals. Fuentes vivisects this dying body of corruption to excite disgust and detestation in the reader. The reveries of Cruz take in a cruel, gaudy life that spans the Revolution. He remembers himself as a barefoot boy in Veracruz blasting the face off a frock-coated oppressor with a shotgun; as a fugitive in Sonora; as a liberator on horseback defeating the federal artillery. He takes a hacienda for the people and the haciendado's daughter for himself. He becomes a general, begins to enrich himself. The betrayals are multiple, and by the time Fuentes lets...
Operation Madeleine. Ferré's songs evoke a complex feeling. Their mood is an absorbing compromise between optimism and disgust, and they have an ironic strength that makes their message as clear as a scream in the street. Though Ferré is a natural-born plaintiff, his songs never argue that life is absurd. "Despair," he says, "is a way of hiding things from one's self." Life is not pointless, just outrageously wrong...
...also had to duck, just to stay alive. Midway in the last round, Mari-lynn's playing partner, Judy Kimball, missed a 3-ft. putt. Swinging her putter in teeth-grinding disgust, Judy sent it zinging right past Marilynn's ear (see cut). At least she had the sense to hold onto the handle. The penalty for throwing a club is $50, and at ladies' prices, that's no bargain. For winning the Titleholders for the second year in a row, Marilynn Smith collected $ 1,300. Mickey got $1,000, and Judy, who finished fourth...
...displayed a remarkable talent for getting other U.S. officials mad at him. His aggressive, abrasive personality hindered the teamwork necessary for policy coordination. He liked to give lectures on how to fight counterguerrilla warfare to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Maxwell Taylor-much to Taylor's disgust. When Hilsman quit, a State Department colleague explained: "It's a two-way deal. Roger wants to go and we-well, let's say we don't mind...