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Shortly after the dictator's assassination, it reports, the Trujillos deposited $35 million in the Bank of Nova Scotia under the name of three cover-up Canadian corporations: later, when the new Dominican government tried to recover the money from Canada, it was transferred to a Geneva bank. More millions poured directly into Switzerland through a network of front companies spread across the Continent. At least seven such fronts were set up in tiny, tax-haven Liechtenstein, and their funds were deposited in Swiss banks. When Swiss bankers were asked by the Dominican government not to accept Trujillo funds...
Jahn is a European (nationality not specified) who has sailed his small ketch to what is presumably Nova Scotia or the Gaspe Peninsula, in order to spend a year testing some mining theories. Maria is the crippled daughter of the customs officer, a wise, learned man who has been paralyzed for 20 years. The young people cannot marry while Maria's father is alive, nor can they let him know that his life is thus a burden. The action of the book be gins as Jahn and his small crew set sail again for Europe. Maria gives...
Although it is generally too slow to dance to, bossa nova has been the rage of Brazilian café society for several years...
...home country it has become almost a religion. "Philosophically," says Brazilian Jazzman Ronaldo Boscoli, "bossa nova is a frame of mind in the same way that Chaplin, Picasso, Prokofiev, Debussy and even Beethoven represented a new frame of mind. They were bossa nova in their time" Such U.S. jazzmen as Flutist Herbie Mann heard the new music, liked it and began putting it in their programs back home. ("Twist music," said Mann, ";is all show and promise -no inner fire. Bossa nova is just the opposite.") Another early convert was Jazz Guitarist Charlie Byrd, who heard bossa nova while...
...Bossa nova is a loose, relaxed and infectious music that puts far more emphasis on melody than is usual in modern jazz...