Word: paulista
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned to a four-legged friend. Top vote-getter (100,000) among 540 candidates for the 45-seat council: a five-year-old female rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish), resident of the São Paulo zoo, whose only graft is 70 Ibs. of vegetables each day. Said one Paulista voter: "Better to elect a rhino than...
This week Chamoun was in São PaulÔ, where the Avenida Paulista is dotted with the mosque-style homes of wealthy Lebanese. Next on his itinerary: Uruguay, where there are 15,000 Lebanese, and Argentina, where there...
...President Getulio Vargas and Adhemar de Barros, the state's political boss. But that turned out to be no help at all. "Shall we throw the robbers out?" croaked his long-shot opponent, a gaunt, unshaven ex-schoolmaster named Jânio Quadros. Quadros whipped the wave of Paulista protest still higher by pointing out that the government had paved streets in new real-estate developments for its speculator friends at a cost of $4,480,000 a mile, of which $4,000,000 was straight graft. "The people wanted a change . . . A lamppost could have been elected," admitted...
...clanging metropolis of lathes, spindles and plentiful credit, fortunes are made in a few years. Most enterprisers expand frenetically, cut the pie in a quick, cold-eyed killing, then move on to bigger things. Declared industrial profits average 18%-but many a Paulista would not touch a deal for less than 100%. Taxes are low, and collection is lax. In an atmosphere as favorable to freewheeling enterprise as the U.S. in President Grant's time, 100% profit is an attainable goal. At least 500 Paulistas have made their million (in terms of U.S. dollars), and 1,000 more...
Returning from Paris recently, a Paulista friend brought Baby's bride-to-be a Cartier cigarette lighter adorned with a sapphire as big as a robin's egg. The friend was Sáo Paulo's fabulous press lord, Assis Chateaubriand, 60, who shares Baby's dislike for Matarazzo and likes to print whole pages of pictures of underpaid Matarazzo workers and their crowded hovels. "Chatô's" head office, two of his 28 newspapers and one of his TV stations are in Sáo Paulo. So is his new Museu de Arte...