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...about redistributing the land -but mainly to himself. Federal and state investigators have just started adding up the totals. When Goulart fled, he was believed on the verge of completing the biggest land deal in Brazilian rural history - the acquisition of $1,385,000 worth of land in Mato Grosso state near the Bolivian border. What he already had latched onto, say the investigators, marked him as a wheeler-dealer without parallel...
...Mato Grosso, Brazil's wild west, Goulart has 16 separate holdings, almost all bought within a single week, seven months after he became President in 1961. Twelve of the parcels are contiguous, forming one giant spread of 636,774 acres. Total Mato Grosso holdings: 1,371,983 acres. All of Goulart's ranches are well stocked with cattle and sheep...
Loans & Phantoms. The evidence coming out about Goulart's method of acquisition is no less remarkable. According to investigators, an employee of the Fundação Brasil Central, a federal land colonization agency, cleared the way for Goulart's title to Cristalina ranch in Mato Grosso by convincing the former owners that their buildings would be burned to the ground unless they sold out at ridiculously low prices. The new government claims that Goulart got the 112,672-acre Fazenda Três Marias, another of his Mato Grosso ranches, free in return for giving the owner...
...those who think the whole letter scramble-like so much else in Brazil-is SNAFU. Except for ADAM and EVE (Amazonas Association of Dentists; Army Veterinary School), few combinations are pronounceable. Besides, Brazilians are running out of initials; MG stands for the states of Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso as well as the Ministry of War. Coming to the rescue of its readers, Rio's morning JB (Jornal do Brasil) recently published an article entitled "Introduction to the Small Dictionary of Initials (Without Which It Is Somewhat Difficult to Read a Newspaper in Brazil)." The list ran nearly...
Ellington's compositions for jazz band and orchestra usually stay within a concerto grosso form that lets the band handle the jazz, while the orchestra plays its own fiddle. After a recent Ellington concert with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Critic Leonard Feather coolly dissected the Duke's Night Creatures concerto: "Ellington played jazz, and the orchestra played classical music. If you put rubies and diamonds on the same string, you don't have a necklace of novel stones-just diamonds and rubies...