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...Frontier Flavor. What Kubitschek could not achieve by evangelism, Brazil's military regime seems determined to accomplish by edict. In marking the tenth anniversary of the capital last month, President Emilio Garrastazu Medici decreed that Cabinet Ministers must henceforth conduct their business only in Brasilia. The Rio-based foreign diplomatic colony will have to follow suit by 1972. The move does offer one compensation to diplomats, though: Brasilia, with its limited escape routes, should discourage political kidnapings...
...visionary aims are taking shape. Thousands of peasants have flocked to the "satellite cities" that spread out from Brasilia to a distance of 25 miles. Trucks rumble along the 1,350-mile Belem-Brasilia highway, spawning hundreds of roadside settlements, some of them with a distinct frontier flavor. At one hamlet, appropriately called Piza no Freio (Hit the Brake), the only permanent residents are a madam and her four girls...
...Salty Flavor. The book, originally the idea of American Heritage President James Parton, took four years to produce. It is designed somewhat like the Petit Larousse, and has plenty of illustrations in the margins. An arcane glossary of Indo-European word roots lends it a patina of intellectuality, and a listing of almost all the outhouse and bawdyhouse four-letter verbs gives it a salty flavor. To comb out the neologisms and solecisms, the editors consulted a usage panel of 104 unpaid judges, mainly journalists and other writers. Among them: Russell Baker, Vermont Royster, Red Smith and Dwight Macdonald...
...must remember that he is a former science fiction writer. His effort to legitimize his teachings by alluding to "scientific research" is typical of his whole approach: in this age of technology, people will automatically accept authoritative statements, supplemented by an extensive vocabulary of terms with a sci-fi flavor. There is even a Scientology abridged dictionary...
...powers stops short, for a legislature gets in the way. Washington political life would be "absolutely unbearable" for Crossman-too much fragmented power. The weakness of the two-party system suggests also a larger futility to American politics. "The one advantage of British politics." he argued, "is the ideological flavor to party divisions. That ideological dimension is missing here, and I wouldn't be in politics without...