Word: joao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silva was to be believed: "You have heard voices raise themselves from the pulpit, from the courts, from Congress, from the universities and from the press." Some were even members of the National Renewal Alliance, the government party established after the first military takeover in March 1964 against Leftist Joao Goulart. The government last week indicated that it may disband the party. One embarrassing reason: 70 of its members were among the Congressmen who refused to indict Fellow Legislator Márcio Moreira Alves for slurs against the army. It was the "no" vote of a normally compliant Congress that...
...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa. Though rooted in the specifics of Brazil's wild interior, this collection of stories by the late author of The Devil to Pay in the Backlands bears an abundant crop of universal values...
...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa. The mystical core of a significant Brazilian writer is revealed in this collection of sto ries, published posthumously...
Zerbini announced that he had a re ipient, Joao Ferreira da Cunha, four weeks ago. Last week providence provided an unidentified victim of a traffic accident. The prospective donor's eyes were dilated and his breathing was labored-but his heart was still beating. Zerbini had the victim wheeled to an operating room; tissue tests determined that he was a suitable donor. After the electroencephalograph showed that all brain waves had stopped, they opened the victim's chest-even though the heart was still beating. One hour and 25 minutes later, the heart stopped, and two surgical teams...
...been called to the scene. Suddenly, the police started swinging their clubs and shooting. In the melee that followed, a bullet killed Edson Lima Souto, 18. Almost instantly he became a martyr, and the next day 20,000 persons marched with his body to the city's Sao Joao Batista Cemetery. Last week 16 special memorial Masses for Lima were held around the city. At the biggest service, saber-swinging horse guards rode right up onto the steps of Candalaria Church, galloping into the midst of startled students and bystanders as they left the service, forcing them to flee...