Word: fontoura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other man. Pharmaceutical Tycoon Dirceu Fontoura, 46, handed Linda a second lesson in Brazilian playboy manners. After a party on Fontoura's yacht, Linda happily told newsmen Fontoura had proposed. Questioned by reporters, Fontoura gleefully chuckled: "Linda Christian? I think I met her once." He denied that she was ever on his yacht, denied proposing. "She's a funny girl. She must be playing games or making jokes." Before any more games could be played with her, Linda hopped a plane for Miami...
...even assented to the liquidation as long ago as last November, they protested loudly when they saw that the U.S. was quite serious about it. 'U.S. BREAKS ITS PROMISE OF ECONOMIC AID,' headlined Rio's Correio da Manhā. Foreign Minister Joāo Neves da Fontoura voiced official dismay. Some Brazilians even talked angrily of denouncing the mutual-defense pact with...
...neighbors, one of the world's oldest international communities, seemed more interested in economics than defense. Replying on behalf of the visiting ministers, Brazil's Joáo Neves da Fontoura declared bluntly that in return for their cooperation in mobilizing, the latinos wanted a better economic deal than they got in World War II. Last time, he said, the Latin American countries built up huge dollar credits. But what they wanted was U.S. goods, which the U.S. did not (or could not) allocate to them. "[Our] position," said Joáo Neves tartly, "could be compared...
...Miller, the U.S.'s fast-stepping Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, is off on another quick swing around his circuit. In a 20-day South American tour, he will pay an official visit to Brazil's new Foreign Minister Joāo Neves da Fontoura, represent the U.S. at the inauguration of Uruguay's President Andrés Martinez Trueba, attend the Pan American Olympic games at Buenos Aires, address the U.N. Economic and Social conferences at Santiago, and pay a courtesy call in Lima...