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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Geremia Lunardelli, 77, coffee king of Brazil for 35 years, an Italian immigrant's son who, though scarcely able to sign his name, carved out a domain of coffee plantations that stretched 300 miles inland from the Atlantic, became an arbiter of the Brazilian economy while spurning honors and titles, saying "I'm only a farm hand; it is the earth that should be decorated"; of a heart attack; in Sāo Paulo, Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 18, 1962 | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

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