Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people of the United States are ready to assume world leadership. When will they realize that with that leadership comes the responsibility for conditions such as those described by Carolina Maria de Jesus [in her best-selling book, Quarto de Despejo, about life in the São Paulo favela, or slum...
Twelve million Brazilian voters next week will choose one of two conservatives -São Paulo's former Governor Jânio Quadros, 43, or retired Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 65-as President of Brazil. Such are the ground rules of Brazilian politics that hardly a voter will realize that he is casting his ballot for a conservative; ever since the campaign began early this year, each camp has spent close to $5,000,000 convincing Brazil that its man is an ardent leftist, a welfare statist and a Brazil-firster...
...confusing lengths to promote images of himself calculated to please everyone. He has also switched from the name-calling, highly personal campaign style that carried him in seven years from a high school classroom (where he taught history, geography and Portuguese literature) to the governorship of São Paulo, Brazil's richest, most powerful state. As Governor, he spent liberally on public works that now support the nation's most bustling industrial complex (steel, automobiles, appliances)-but also got rid of some 15,000 featherbedding state workers...
...Communists he pointed to his trip last year to Moscow and hinted at possible recognition of Russia and Red China; before nationalists he flayed bloodsucking foreign exploiters. As President, he would probably run the same kind of businesslike, economical, development-minded government that he built in São Paulo...
Fetid Mysteries. To middle-class residents of Rio and São Paulo, the fetid favelas are cities apart, mysteriously alive but best not entered. In her book, Carolina tells them what life there is like. She recalls that for her daughter Vera Eunice's birthday, she dug a pair of shoes out of the garbage. "I washed them and gave them to her." Of the death of a two month-old boy in the favela, Carolina notes: "If he had lived he would have gone hungry." She says, "How horrible it is to see your children...