Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expensive, prolonged and perilous marathon of them all. This year's Tour pitted 132 brawny-thighed riders against a brutal 2,750-mile course. Starting at Rouen, the race cut through Belgium, leaped the Alps into Italy, streaked across the south of France into the Pyrenees, and wound northeast along the stately Loire to Paris. The sunburned, dust-caked riders quit at 5 p.m. each day, laying over at night in Tricolor-draped towns that paid up to $8,000 for the privilege. Reason: restaurants and shops can count on a 40% leap in business; hotels are booked months...
...Furtado took a sentimental journey home, was stunned to find that the mayor of his backward home-town had spent most of the available public funds to build a hanging garden in a park. Says Furtado: "During that visit home, I decided to fight backwardness for Brazil's northeast, so that no more hanging gardens were built before the problems were solved." Ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek put him to work. After an hour's talk, Successor Quadros confirmed the appointment, raised Furtado to cabinet rank...
...public funds, Quadros and Furtado have already earmarked $140 million this year for such items as water and sewage systems, workers' housing, clinics, schools. By the time his five-year term is finished, Quadros plans to lay out a staggering $900 million in the northeast, 60% of it Brazilian. The other 40% he hopes to get from the U.S., and Furtado's Washington mission last week was to sell the idea...
...Furtado and that the U.S. would put its resources where its sympathies lie. "The overall objectives," said Kennedy, "appear to be substantially sound, realistic and in harmony with those of the Alliance for Progress." The practical proof: a Kennedy promise to send a team of U.S. technicians to the northeast, along with surplus food-estimated at an eventual $125 million worth over five years...
...hard on the Castroites and Communists who seek to subvert Brazil. When leftist students rioted in Recife over the university's refusal to let Che Guevara's Argentine mother, Celia. deliver a Castroite harangue, Quadros sent in the Brazilian navy and marines. Fanning out into the inflamed northeast, they raided Peasant League strongholds to round up propaganda smuggled in from Castro's Cuba, and arms. In Brazil's labor movement, once heavily Communist-infiltrated. Quadros' men are working to cut the Reds "off at the knees." The unions used to be able to get handouts...