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Wonderful Time. In all its 125 free years, Brazil had never celebrated an Independence Day like this one. Brazilians looked back to the day in 1822 when young Dom Pedro, the Portuguese Emperor's son, spurned the imperial decrees from Lisbon, and uttered the words "Independence or Death" that had made Brazil a free nation. The U.S. had stepped forward as the first country to recognize Brazil as a sovereign nation. After Dom Pedro and his son had come (in 1889) the Republic...
...First Year. In Lisbon. Newlywed Francisco Carvalho fled to the airport, crawled into the landing gear housing...
...Born in Lisbon in 1647, De Britto became a Jesuit at 15. In 1673 he traveled to India to preach Christianity. He converted a Maravese prince and then demanded that the prince dismiss all of his wives but one. Among the wives was a niece of the King of Marava; she objected so effectively that De Britto was beheaded...
After the Germans invaded France, Gulbenkian went to Lisbon, where he lives at the plush Hotel Aviz...
From Capri, he flew to Lisbon and back to the U.S. Last week, he was home again in San Francisco.The five weeks in Europe had cost him exactly $300, plus $1,052 in plane fares. On a vacation that had completely missed Europe's hunger, he had only one bit of financial hard luck: he lost 12,000 black-market francs on roulette at Monte Carlo...