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...called Brasilia-after Washington, D.C. For scoffers, the General has two reminders : 1) 41 years ago Brazilian dreamers planned the model city which is today the lively, bustling reality of Bello Horizonte; 2) Golánia, the model capital of the state of Goiaz, was only a gleam in a city planner's eye five years...
Walk along Madrid's Gran Via in the early evening-the hour of the Paseo. Smart women in furs and well-dressed men jostle along the avenue, huddling in their mufflers against the chill wind from the Guadarramas. Street lights gleam on neatly cleaned streets, on the chaste, well-stocked windows of expensive stores. The roadway is crowded with French, German, Italian, British and American automobiles and with rickety taxis that are always full...
...still a question whether Brazil's big farmers would be willing to follow Nelson Rockefeller's gleam. And would Brazilian capitalists be attracted by anything but exorbitant profits? Still, a little success would go a long way in big, backward Brazil. And such a commercially helpful hand would be a potent implement to U.S. foreign policy...
Liggett's was taking inventory Sunday night with a sadistic gleam in its eye, but Monday morning found tooth-paste still within bounds, and the girl behind the counter still booked solid through July...
Last week brought a gleam in the darkness, a first soft glow in the terrifying gloom which seven months before, after the blinding flash over Hiroshima, had engulfed the world. Perhaps there was a workable and reasonable way of saving the world from the atom...