Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Planning Ahead. The strong measures have brought wounded howls from many Brazilians. But most businessmen are no longer in love with inflation and are ready to go along. "Inflation," says São Paulo Industrialist Paulo Quartim Barbosa, "is an illusion of grandeur and a guarantee of catastrophe." As for foreign investors, they were busy dusting off all the expansion plans pigeonholed while Goulart was in power. Willys-Overland do Brasil, the country's largest automaker, plans a $30 million expansion, Volkswagen is investing another $21 million in its São Paulo plant, Argentina's Bunge & Born...
...winner of the 1960 Venice Biennale's International Sculpture Award, carves "colloquies" in slabs of stainless steel and wood. Alberto Viani smoothes sweeping surfaces to an Arp-like elegance. Quinto Ghermandi coaxes bronze until it is as fragile as a leaf. Francesco Somaini, Best Foreign Sculptor in Sao Paulo's 1959 Bienal. makes magnificent metal meteorites both rugged and grand. Leoncillo bakes gres (a clay mixture) until his solder-colored shapes look as if they sprung from lava. Through June...
...ever there was a popular revolution, it was the one that last week toppled Brazilian President João ("Jango") Goulart. In São Paulo, samba dancers whirled through the streets, singing, shouting and kicking. In Rio, some 300,000 cariocas pranced and danced along the Avenida Presidente Vargas beneath a storm of confetti, tootling carnival horns, waving handkerchiefs, clapping every back within reach. At a Copacabana restaurant, three tired, rain-drenched college boys tramped in off the street, plopped down at a table and lovingly draped a damp green, blue and yellow Brazilian flag over the fourth chair...
Civilian political backing was hardly a problem. São Paulo's militantly anti-Communist Governor Adhemar de Barros had been plotting his own revolt for three months, and was in secret contact with the governors of several other Brazilian states. Carlos Lacerda, governor of pivotal Guanabara state, which consists mostly of the city of Rio de Janeiro, was Tango's declared enemy and would surely go along...
Back to Brasília. The turning point came as rebel troops, led by anti-Jango General Amaury Kruel, flew from São Paulo over the defense lines Goulart had set up outside Rio and took over the city behind them. Within the city, Goulart's archenemy, Carlos Lacerda, had manned the governor's palace with 500 state troopers and barricaded it with 20 city garbage trucks still bearing an anti-litter slogan: "HELP US. WE ARE CLEANING UP THE CITY." When the tide turned against Jango, Lacerda went on television to proclaim emotionally, "God has taken...