Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More impressive still is Anápolis. In 1950 it was a sleepy back-country town of 18,000 at the end of a railroad from São Paulo. Today it boasts 80,000 people, and last week construction crews were putting the finishing touches on four 15-story buildings. Belém, at the northern terminus of the road, has developed from a ragged river port into a thriving commercial center of 430,000, shipping jute, pepper and rubber to markets in the south...
Pomodoro, 39, started out making modern jewelry. Slowly his self-taught attempts at sculpture drew recognition, until prizes at the 1963 Sāo Paulo and 1964 Venice biennials won his works places in London's Tate and New York's Museum of Modern Art. For Pomodoro, the starting point is always solid geometry; the tension begins as he scars and gouges out his spheres, cylinders, cubes and disks. "The contrast between the polished and torn surfaces is precisely the difficulty of the individual to adapt to a new world," he feels. What he finds within evokes...
...against Communism, corruption and all the other things it finds wrong with Brazil. In Rio, rumors flew that recently returned ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, still sick abed after two weeks of military questioning about his graft-riddled 1956-61 regime, would soon be heading back to exile. In Sao Paulo, erratic ex-President Janio Quadros was called before a military tribunal amid stories that he and scores of others were going to jail for corruption during his wild seven-month regime in 1961. The public was told to prepare for a series of elections leading up to a brand...
...underside of rocks, on cave walls damp with waterfall spray under tree roots, in abandoned cars in Telephone booths and even in traffic lights, the Africans have killed birds chickens dogs, pigs, horses and four people. Four months ago, a resident of Caieiras, near São Paulo, tried to burn an African beehive stuck in a chimney of a local bar. In a "buzzing mass that darkened the sun," one reported, that the Africans swarmed into the bar stung a traveling wine salesman senseless, left so many stingers in the bald dome of the bartender that he "thought...
...tempers, the marauding Africans have Brazilians frantically searching for an antidote. But so far, the only suggested solution is genocide. "Destroy them all says Father Nedel. "If they are not Controlled, they will take over all the other bees and they will take over Brazil. Says São Paulo Beekeeper Luiz Zovaro who keeps African bees, but has had to raise the price of honey from 39? to almost $2 a jar because it is so difficult to extract honeycombs from their hives: "If they are not stopped Brazil will no longer be safe. I am very discouraged about...