Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confused, workers are restless and officials fearful - all waiting for the man ordained by Providence," said the Jornal do Brasil. Besides, cacao shippers wanted to change export policies, hotelmen com plained (naming no names) that Brazilians spend more in foreign hotels than in their own, São Paulo politicians wanted Quadros to name a candidate for mayor...
...enjoying himself in imperial fashion on a state visit to Brazil when a ham radio operator in Addis Ababa flashed the bad news. "Calling everybody, calling everybody! Ethiopia is in a critical state following a coup d'état." Glumly, the Emperor lunched in his Sāo Paulo hotel room on lobster thermidor, stared out the window and pondered the unkindest cut of all. The revolt had apparently been led by his own son and heir, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, 44. By that night the Lion of Judah was back on his private DC-6B and bound...
...from behind their soup-stained neckties and that untidy mess of irregular verbs, seem to be nice old dears. Take Alexander Lenard, M.D., a 50-year-old Hungarian linguist who for the last eight years has been teaching and farming in a small town near Sāo Paulo, Brazil. When he first read A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, he apparently thought of all those poor little children in ancient Rome who would never be able to read it, and he felt just awful. There was only one thing to do: translate it for them...
...overgrown remainder of a busted boom in wild, natural rubber. "I wanted that land so bad my head boiled over" he recalls. He got it on time payments for a price estimated at less than 25? an acre, left his wife and three sons in São Paulo and moved in to make something...
...Smith could be well satisfied with what he saw. Working without pay and under primitive conditions, Brazil's 267 Mormon missionaries have won 30,000 converts, expect to baptize 2,000 more within the next six months, will open a large, modern chapel in bustling São Paulo this winter...