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Another familiar face is that of Jeffrey Wayne Davies, who turns in a predictably excellent performances as King Gama, Ida's father. Gama is a grouchy, twisted troll of a man, constantly pointing out everyone's faults. "Everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man/And I can't think why!" he complains in a solo that Gilbert wrote as a jocular self-description. (Gilbert positively reveled in his reputation as an ogre. Around a scowling self-portrait, he once wrote. "I loathe everybody--I love to bully--Everybody is an Ass--I am an overbearing beast--I hate my fellow...
...drivers in last week's contest between the Vasco da Gama and America teams were typical of the heterogeneous lot attracted to autobol. One was a cab driver obviously venting pent-up aggressions, while two others were doctors who drove as if they were bent on drumming up some business. Though no one has yet been killed in autobol, bruises and broken ribs are regularly dished out by such cunguceiros (bad guys) as Vasco da Gama's Walter Lacet, a director of TV soap operas...
Though the fans loved every side-swiping, hard-fought (final score: America 4, Vasco da Gama 3) minute of it, autobol buffs like Driver-Stockbroker Ivan Silva suggest that the most spectacular crackups are yet to come. Silva foresees the day when huge throngs will watch as many as 22 drivers battling on a 300-yd. field in the latest high-powered machines. "They will be 300 horsepower cars," says Silva. "With big cars and a big field, we could get much higher speeds. It will be dangerous! The public will love...
Pentagon officials have long conceded that there are bound to be some "horror stories" among the approximately 22,000 contracts that the military services let each year. Kaufman insists that "literally every contract is a horror story." He cites case after case of overruns, from the Gama Goat, an amphibious cargo carrier that cost $304 million more than expected to develop, to the C-5A and General Dynamics' F-111 fighter-bombers, which went up from $4,000,000 to $13.7 million each...
Just before midnight on the day following the Alves vote, a solemn-faced Justice Minister Luiz Antonio da Gama e Silva interrupted radio and television broadcasts to announce that the President had signed the Fifth Institutional Act, giving him full dictatorial powers in "defense of the necessary interests of the nation." The act, the fifth of its kind in the last four years, gave Costa e Silva the right to close Congress, rule by decree, cancel the political rights of any person, declare a state of siege, dismiss public officials, waive writs of habeas corpus, and permit the seizure...