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...Helder Macedo, a senior lecturer at Kings College of the University of London, will come to Harvard next fall as the Smith Visiting Professor of Language and Literature of Portugal, Claudio Guillen, chairman of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures said yesterday...
Guillen, who headed the search committee that chose Macedo, said that Macedo's appointment was "an important step" in the search for a permanent replacement for Francis M. Rogers, who will retire from the Smith professorship at the end of this semester...
...more exuberant people than the Brazilians. Citizens of Rio de Janeiro and Sāo Paulo hold polite sidewalk conversations by shouting at each other above the city noises. Do they mind? Quite the contrary. "Sāo Paulo is noisier than here," says Housewife Itacy Buarque de Macedo, "but our noise is more simpatico...
...woman lawyer is no longer a surprise: Peru has some 200. Nor for that matter is a lady engineer or banker. In Rio, Lotta Macedo Scares, 54, a member of one of Brazil's oldest families, spends her days in baggy blue jeans and checkered shirt as a construction executive, bossing a $700,000 park-and-playground project bordering Guanabara Bay. Her compatriot, Sandra Cavalcanti, a Sorbonne-educated linguist, is organizing the National Housing Bank and has plans to finance several million private homes over the next 20 years. "Within three years," she vows, "the National Housing Bank will...
...been lukewarm to the idea of Pan American summit talks. Washington would prefer a meeting of foreign ministers for hard conference work, topping that meeting off with a symbolic gathering of Presidents afterward. The U.S. view is widely understood; Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Carlos de Macedo Soares resigned last week in protest over Kubitschek's call for presidential talks...