Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agency, two pharmaceutical laboratories and three coffee-and-cattle ranches. He crusaded to push Brazil into the air age, with a campaign that dotted the nation with aviation clubs. He built child-care centers all over Brazil, bullied friends and enemies into filling a $15 million Sāo Paulo art museum with $25 million worth of art. In his heyday, he was the ebullient Brazilian Ambassador to the Court...
...domain of coffee plantations that stretched 300 miles inland from the Atlantic, became an arbiter of the Brazilian economy while spurning honors and titles, saying "I'm only a farm hand; it is the earth that should be decorated"; of a heart attack; in Sāo Paulo, Brazil...
...curiously, Kubitschek's suggestions that were to have the widest reach and scope concerned the relatively prosperous area of the central South. (This area, which includes the most heavily industrial sectors such as those of Sao Paulo, is generaly considered the key to overcoming Brazil's most perplexing economic problem: an unfavorable balance of trade...
...other politicians competed too stridently for public attention. Candidate Quadros wandered the world issuing vague proclamations, turning aside envoys who traveled to him to offer their support, and counting on the public's memory of his able and corruption-free term as governor of populous Sāo Paulo State. Between his election and inauguration he again disappeared, leaving Brazilians to speculate about his policies, his Cabinet, his whereabouts. After his August abdication he sailed to England, then cruised on to Australia to stroll the beaches and remain uncommunicative...
ANDRE RONAY São Paulo, Brazil...