Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church and has won 100 converts-that other ministers set up similar communities in Somerville, N.J., and Stamford, Conn. This year, the Churches of Christ plan to organize new congregations in Rochester, N.Y., Burlington, Mass., and Toronto, Canada. By 1968, they hope to ship a readymade congregation to Sao Paulo in Brazil...
...opposition M.D.B.-thus theoretically voting for or against President Humberto Castello Branco's brand of "revolution." Such is Brazilian politics today that a vote for a government candidate was not always a vote for the government. Some ARENA candidates openly proclaimed-their opposition to Castello Branco. In Sao Paulo, one ARENA campaigner pleaded for votes so that "I can oppose the government's policies from within." The opposition, far freer with its criticism, loudly blasted the diminutive ex-general for his "dictatorship...
...tire plant and Italy's Pirelli is building a wire and conductor factory. Other European groups are setting up ventures in canning, batteries and cement forms. Last week the U.S.-backed Inter-American Development Bank chipped in $29.5 million to help finance a $79 million expansion of the Paulo Afonso hydroelectric plant on the San Francisco River in the Nordeste...
Instead of striving for better faculties and teaching aids, many universities have frittered away their income on grandiose but nonfunctional campuses. One example is São Paulo's mammoth "university city," which has been under construction for 22 years; today, a majority of classes are still held in an assortment of buildings scattered about downtown São Paulo, since students and teachers alike complain that the new campus is too far from the city...
Catholics & Medics. There are some exceptions to the pattern of bleakness. Roman Catholic institutions, such as Buenos Aires' Catholic University and Colombia's Jesuit-run Javeriana Pontifical University, generally offer better and more disciplined education. The continent's medical schools-notably those at São Paulo and at Mexico's National Autonomous University-are often topflight. Mexico's Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education is excellent...