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Jealous Faculties. Latin American universities are further plagued by inefficient administration. Most schools are loose-knit amalgamations of once-separate faculties that jealously cling to their own identities and offer duplicate courses. At the University of São Paulo, which consists of 16 separate institutes and 68 affiliated units, chemistry courses are taught in 22 different buildings. Costs consequently multiply. Some third-rate regional universities in Brazil spend up to $4,000 per student for each year of study-about the annual cost of an education at Harvard...
Instead of striving for better faculties and teaching aids, many universities have frittered away their income on grandiose but nonfunctional campuses. One example is São Paulo's mammoth "university city," which has been under construction for 22 years; today, a majority of classes are still held in an assortment of buildings scattered about downtown São Paulo, since students and teachers alike complain that the new campus is too far from the city...
Catholics & Medics. There are some exceptions to the pattern of bleakness. Roman Catholic institutions, such as Buenos Aires' Catholic University and Colombia's Jesuit-run Javeriana Pontifical University, generally offer better and more disciplined education. The continent's medical schools-notably those at São Paulo and at Mexico's National Autonomous University-are often topflight. Mexico's Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education is excellent...
...West Germany. To the despair of their supporters, the others had fallen to noisy defeat. The loudest wails came from Brazil, whose team had won the cup in 1958 and 1962. A loss to Portugal became a nationwide calamity. From office buildings in Rio and São Paulo, clouds of black carbon paper and typewriter ribbon cascaded onto the streets below; flags were lowered to half-mast, and people wept in public...
Adhemar was intent on installing his own man, but Castello Branco picked out Abreu Sodré, a reform-minded São Paulo lawyer, for the Governor's job. Since the election was to be decided by the state legislature, where the revolution held a bandwagon majority, Adhemar's only hope was to woo the assemblymen's votes, and he went about it with all the fury that money and patronage could buy. He handed out 13,000 state jobs in five days, sometimes nominating as many as three people to the same position. And when Castello...