Word: luiz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Luiz Munoz Marin, with the backing of two-thirds of the Legislature, on Jan. 5, rejected an independance Party move to consider President Eisenhower's five-year old offer of Independence for Puerto Rico...
...years since the Brazilian town of Batatais, 300 miles northwest of Rio, had been formally elevated to the official and honorable category of village, and Bishop Luiz Mousinho marked the anniversary last week by blessing 14 brilliant religious murals in the town's new Roman Catholic church. Surprisingly, the paintings were the work of an avowed freethinker and Communist. But the 9,850 townspeople would have no other artist than Candido Portinari, 49, who rose from a lowly birthplace near Batatais to become Brazil's best painter and the area's most admired native...
Last week a Brazilian air force lieutenant named Luiz Felipe Albuquerque Jr., 30, also found out. Having lifted some $35 million from Brazilians in a fantastic borrow-from-Peter-to-pay-Paul scheme (and thereby out-Ponziing Ponzi, whose operations never topped $15 million), Albuquerque found that he had gone broke. On the front page of his newspaper Diario do Rio, he printed a shattering notice: "On this date, for unforeseen reasons I am closing my commercial activities . . . Those who intuitively saw that my business would fail were right . . . I shall not run away . . . My creditors will be paid . . . Remain...