Word: furtado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight Juliâo and his Peasant Leagues, President Quadros is backing a man and a plan. Last week Quadros sent the man to Washington to seek help. Celso Furtado, 40, felt immediately at home with President Kennedy's frontiersmen. Slim and intense, Furtado is himself a northeasterner who got through economics courses at Cambridge and the Sorbonne on saved-up soldier's pay and a literary prize. He worked nine years for the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America laying out development plans for Mexico and Venezuela, made a study of the Brazilian economy, finally...
Hang the Gardens. Before moving into his new office, Furtado took a sentimental journey home, was stunned to find that the mayor of his backward home-town had spent most of the available public funds to build a hanging garden in a park. Says Furtado: "During that visit home, I decided to fight backwardness for Brazil's northeast, so that no more hanging gardens were built before the problems were solved." Ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek put him to work. After an hour's talk, Successor Quadros confirmed the appointment, raised Furtado to cabinet rank...