Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...producer of cheap shoes founded by Half Brother Thomas, but who in 1962 was relegated to an outpost in Brazil after Nephew Thomas Jr. of Canada's Bata, Ltd., won control of the family empire in a spectacular court fight; of a heart attack; in São Paulo, Brazil...
PATRICIA K. VANCE Sao Paulo, Brazil...
Brasilia is still years away from the magnificent capital that Kubitschek envisioned. But the population is up to 330,000 with an- estimate of more than 500,000 by 1985. Today 120 of the Congress' 475 members live permanently in Brasilia instead of commuting from Rio and Sao Paulo. Next year the Brazilian Foreign Office will move to the capital, along with the 69 foreign delegations that now have their embassies in Rio. Other members of Brazil's official family should not be far behind. "I'm finding it increasingly difficult," says one U.S. embassy officer...
...Million Take. There seems to be no geographical limit to the appeal of sex, violence and snobbery with which Fleming endowed his British secret agent. In Tokyo, the queue for Goldfinger stretches half a mile. In Brazil, where From Russia broke all Rio and Sao Paulo records, one unemployed TV actor had only to change his name to Jaime Bonde to be swamped with offers. In Beirut, where Goldfinger outdrew My Fair Lady, even Goldfinger's hat-hurling bodyguard, Oddjob, has become a minor hero...
Then, over lunch at São Paulo's prestigious Automobile Club last fall, Economics Minister Roberto Campos and Texas Economist Benjamin Higgins, a special adviser to the Brazilian government, heard several businessmen say that they would agree to curb prices if, in return, they could get a promise of government "fiscal and credit incentives." Higgins went for the anti-inflation plan, persuaded Campos to accept it. More than 750 companies have already volunteered to abide by it, including nearly all the auto, cement, drug and steel manufacturers...