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After ten months of debate, Brazil's Chamber of Deputies passed President Getulio Vargas' oil bill last week. If the Senate, as expected, approves it without significant changes. Brazil will join Mexico and Iran as a land of nationalized...
...Plunging into the trackless Mato Grosso (Thick Forest), such 20th century big-game hunters as Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander ("Tiger Man") Siemel encountered jaguars hardly smaller than the fiercest tigers of Bengal. Nine years ago, out to win the 116,000 square miles of this wild Brazilian west. President Getulio Vargas set up the government-financed Central Brazil Foundation and ordered: "Conquer the wilderness. Colonize the area...
...Nationalism is my banner," says Brazil's President Getulio Vargas. "No one shall ever snatch it away from me." Last week it was plain that Vargas' nationalism is plunging Brazil ever deeper into an international-trade crisis...
Brazil's government is hostile to Lacerda, who has thrown verbal punches at many a government bigwig, from President Getulio Vargas down. But his reports were too well documented to be ignored. The foreign ministry replaced the charge d'affaires in El Salvador, recalled an accused consul from London, announced that a three-man commission would be formed to look into Lacerda's allegations...
From a 21-gun presidential salute to a double sundae at the Oriskany's ice-cream bar, the U.S. Navy gave Getulio the works. While he lolled in the captain's bridge chair, a dozen Banshee jets and 14 TBM3 torpedo bombers were catapulted off. The President ducked behind the bridge windscreen as the planes buzzed low over the carrier, and craned his neck as they skimmed over Copacabana beach. After watching the jets deliver rocket attacks on a towed target, he hastily stuffed cotton in his ears as the ships' antiaircraft guns opened...