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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tripled Ratings. Boston-born, Barbara is the daughter of Lou Walters, who opened the Latin Quarter nightclubs in Boston. Miami and New York. After studying English at Sarah Lawrence, she flirted with acting, then took a speedwriting course and went to work as a secretary at NBC. Researching and writing stints followed, and eight years ago she went on camera as the 16th permanent "Today girl," the first who was allowed to do much more than decorate the set, and the one who stuck...
CARNIVAL hits Brazil this week, and millions of cariocas, paulistas and other citizens will have more to celebrate than in years. Cynics have long said that Latin America's biggest country "is the land of the future-and always will be the land of the future." Suddenly, however, the future is right on the horizon...
After seven years of austerity, economic innovations and political repression, Brazil claims one of the fastest-growing economies in Latin America. Its gross national product last year advanced more than 11 % (to a still modest $40 billion). A wave of consumer spending has given fresh fuel to the world's eighth largest car industry, which last year increased production by 20%, to 500,000 units. Sales of consumer durables-TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines and other appliances -went up by almost one quarter in 1971. While Chile under its Leftist President Salvador Allende is nearly bankrupt, Brazil has prospered...
...postponed income tax collections. Wage increases were tied to productivity gains, about 3% to 4% yearly. Delfim also eased price controls; that gave a lift to production, but certainly did not help slow inflation. Last year prices accelerated by 20%, which would be horrendous almost anywhere except in Latin America, where many countries have often suffered even steeper price increases...
...billion in direct private investment in Brazil, almost half has been supplied by U.S. firms, including General Electric, Kodak, GTE Sylvania and IBM (Brazil's biggest exporter). As the country's industrial base expands, Brazilians are acquiring a new sense of pre-eminence in Latin America that is making some of their neighbors nervous. Brazil is not yet strong enough to pursue a really imperialistic course, and the generals still rely on an indefinite suspension of civil liberties to stay in power. But the country that has a third of Latin America's population and much...