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Over the past 15 years, the loudest, most persistent and least predictable voice in Brazil has been that of Carlos Lacerda, 51, the handsome, mercurial politician now serving as governor of Guanabara state, which includes Rio. Brazilians know him as the man whose hounding attacks helped drive Dictator Getulio Vargas to suicide in 1954. Lacerda-who started as a Communist, then swung to the right-was the severest critic of Presidents Cafe Filho and Juscelino Kubitschek, played a major role in pushing the erratic Janio Quadros into resigning, and was a key civilian leader in the 1964 revolution that toppled...
...cast doesn't, on the whole, do justice to Conley's script. Eric Carriker is very convincing as one of the robbers, while Glen Buscher is not. The others are nothing more than dull, although it was somewhat unfortunate that Bob Russman's voice was both the loudest and worst...
...loudest complaints against the Supreme Court is that it "frees criminals" almost every time it tightens state criminal procedures. But what actually happens when the court rules in favor of criminal appellants? A remarkable number are later reconvicted in state courts, winning only the honor of having their names pinned to historic decisions that establish rights for others...
...deficiencies of the monetary system have raised the loudest cries for reform since the system was set up in 1944. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, whose financial policies are in large part being dictated by international bankers, has bitterly condemned "the archaic limitations of our international monetary machinery." Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon felt so strongly about the matter that in his farewell statement two weeks ago he said: "The greatest financial challenge is to work out changes in the international monetary system." French Economist Jacques Rueff, who influenced Charles de Gaulle's call for a return...
...went to Argentina's Martha Argerich, who won by an eyelash over Brazil's Arturo Moreira-Lima. The Polish audiences, who packed Warsaw's splendorous Philharmonic Hall for each session of the grueling three-week contest, took issue with the judges, awarded their longest, loudest ovations to 24-year-old Edward Auer (fifth) from Los Angeles, the first American ever to gain the finals in the prestigious competition for young pianists (age limit: 30). Auer captured the audience's fancy with his bashful manner and the flashy brilliance of his playing...