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Afterward, the Pope greeted the only survivor among the three children who reported seeing the Fátima vision-Lucia dos Santos, now a 60-year-old Carmelite nun-and conferred briefly with Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Eleven hours after his arrival, Paul was winging back to Rome. Whatever its temporal effects on peace, many Catholics regarded the Pope's visit as a religious incongruity. To encourage ecumenism with Protestants, the Second Vatican Council did not emphasize Mary, and the exaggeration of Marian devotion in Catholicism has since declined. In the light of Paul's conservatism...
...going to catch Julio Cortázar making things too clear. "Sometimes I am convinced," muses one character, "that the triangle is another name for stupidity, that eight times eight is madness or a dog." When this character, a Uruguayan woman called La Maga, goes to bed with Horacio Oliveira, an Argentine, they make love in "Gliglish": "Right away she tordled her hurgales, allowing him gently to bring up his orfelunes...
Glints of Skill. Behind Cortázar's stubbornly obscurantist prose falls the shadow of a story. Its central figure is Oliveira, one of a group of frayed Left Bank intellectuals who read Carson McCullers, play old Coleman Hawkins records and dither boozily about reality. Oliveira is a man suffering from "world-ache" and Baudelairean tastes; the two go together. He is later seen in Buenos Aires, where he has gone either to look for La Maga, whom he has lost, or for his own identity, which he has never found. In the company of old friends, he meanders...
Most of the credit goes to Castello Branco's Minister of Economic Planning, Roberto de Oliveira Campos, 48, a U.S.-trained economist and Brazil's onetime Ambassador to the U.S. Campos is doing more than trying to reform an economy; he is trying to discipline a national mentality. For a starter, he eliminated $200 million a year in government wheat, oil and newsprint import subsidies, thus halting a wasteful drain on Brazil's treasury. He then ended labor's inflation-producing 75%-to-100% wage hikes, slowed down the money presses, and began reforming Brazil...
Castello Branco is determined to slow the whirligig. His new Minister of Economic Planning, Roberto de Oliveira Campos, 57, onetime Ambassador to the U.S. and a brilliant economist, has eliminated $200 million a year worth of subsidies for wheat, oil and newsprint, has raised taxes and tightened collections. One of his first moves was to end the 75% to 100% salary increases of the Goulart days; he set up credit bureaus to expand farm production and lower food prices. To encourage more investment, the government is also liberalizing profit-remittance laws. This month the Brazilian Congress finally set aside...