Word: medici
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generals brought in as Finance Minister Antonio Delfim Netto, a brilliant, bullying Sao Paulo State finance secretary and former economics professor. Delfim has been given a free hand in running the economy and now, at 43, is the second most powerful man in Brazil, after President Emilio Garrastazu Medici...
...benefits of the new wealth have been largely confined to the middle-class minority, while the majority remains mired in varying degrees of poverty. Even President Medici concedes: "The economy is going well, the people not so well." As a start on redistributing the wealth, the government now requires employers to open bank accounts for all employees and deposit part of the firm's profits into them. Workers are permitted to draw on this account only to buy a house, pay medical bills or pursue other goals that the government deems worthwhile...
...demanded an invitation by telex -and got the White House O.K. within an hour. Italy's Premier Emilio Colombo also got Nixon's nod. Portugal's Premier Marcello Caetano made the list only because the Azores is Portuguese territory. When Brazil's President Emilio Garrastazu Medici arrived in Washington last week, he found his long-scheduled courtesy call upgraded to two hour-long sessions with the President. After the White House finally closed the appointment calendar, there were cries of protest from some unsuccessful summit seekers, notably Mexico and South Korea...
Michael Butler, that "Medici of the counter-culture" who hully-gullied all the way to the Chase Manhattan after his production of Hair, may have taken on some real risks in deciding to produce The Trial of the Catonsville Nine in Cambridge. Berrigan's play has a certain amount of purely dramatic force, especially in proud statements of faith like defendant David Darst's: "People are sacred, an end in themselves. They can't be used as means." But most of that force is thrown against particularly contemporary, and particularly political problems; in a political trial...
Running 200 miles south of the Amazon River, and almost parallel to it, the Transamazonian Highway project is already being billed by President Emilio G. Medici's military regime as the work of the century. Not since the feverish 1950s, when former President Juscelino Kubitschek built the city of Brasilia and had the 1,350-mile Belem-Brasilia highway carved out of the jungle, have Brazilians responded with such a display of national pride to the challenge of conquering their last natural frontier...