Word: grandees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For all its political and economic disarray, Brazil remains a huge, vigorously growing nation that is learning to take advantage of its universal resources. One day recently, President Castello Branco flew 350 miles south from Brasilia to preside over two impressive ceremonies. At a construction site on the Rio Grande...
Died. Maria Dabrowska, 75, Poland's grande dame of letters and critic of Communist censorship, who last year joined 33 prominent intellectuals in a forlorn bid for greater freedom, and persisted after others gave up, best known for her sensitive four-volume saga (Nights and Days, 1934) of the...
Even more far-reaching is the change within nordestinos themselves. Says Recife Industrialist Renato Bezerra de Melo: "You feel a crazy desire on the part of everybody to learn-even among the illiterate. I can start any kind of course in my factory, and 200 workers will show up." In...
Died. Nathalie Henderson Swan, 83, a lifelong humanitarian who as a debutante decided in 1901 "that privilege carried with it a responsibility to the community," together with Friend Mary Harriman (Averell's sister) founded New York's Junior League, nucleus of the highly social volunteer women's...
When his ragged troops reach the near shore of the Rio Grande, the major must give up the chase or ford the river into Mexico. How? "We'd better walk on water," suggests an aide.