Word: dutra
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...mostly Brazil's Army works hand & glove with the Church to reinforce the country's reactionary social pattern. Many a Brazilian liberal feared last week that the Army was out to silence not just Communists but all critics of the Dutra government. Its strongest allies: Brazil's fatalistic masses, who after a year and a half of democracy still do not know what to make of it, still accept the Army as the country's most potent and inevitable political force...
Extremist. Architect Niemeyer is a Communist and he works diligently at being a Communist. During last winter's elections, he sold the Communist Tribuna Popular in Rio's streets. It did not raise his stock with conservative President Eu rico Gaspar Dutra. Last week, Dutra was reported to have canceled a contract recently awarded to Niemeyer for a great aeronautical center near Sao Paulo-an air city with hangars, workshops, hospital, stadia, schools and apartments...
...battle in Brazil is settled until the last round. Niemeyer's fellow and foreign architects are pressuring Dutra to reverse himself...
...went to work. The State Department's Will Clayton set up meetings with Detroit big shots, who promised to supply the trucks. Steamship Tycoon Albert Moore (Moore-McCormack) agreed to deliver the trucks if Brazil could promise "no waiting" at its snafued docks (TIME, April 7). President Dutra gave his word. Last week's delivery was the payoff...
...governors, local legislators, and a third senator for each of Brazil's 20 states and the Federal District. Cariocas voted (for the first time in a dozen years) for 50 Rio de Janeiro municipal councilmen. The chief parties were: the Social Democratic Party (of President Eurico Caspar Dutra); the Labor Party (bossed by ex-President Getulio Vargas); the Communist Party; and the National Democratic Union (which is against the Government, the Communists and Vargas). The most sensational aspect of the election was the gains made by Brazil's Communists, who, with an official membership...