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...Rise. Constantino de Castro Ribeiro was a clever and ambitious youth of 17 when he arrived in Brazil in 1920 from his native Portugal. He married a wealthy girl, opened a dry-goods store in Sao Paulo and soon expanded by adding a canning factory. Before long curious things began to happen...
...Constantino owned the biggest preserve and canning factory in Sao Paulo. Several of Constantino's customers who prayed to Santa Izildinha reported a series of "miracles": a man run over by a car was uninjured because his wife invoked Izildinha's name; a tubercular was cured after doctors had given up hope; a chronically sick child suddenly bloomed with health. In 1944 Constantino's saintly connections so impressed the townfolk of Monte Alto, 250 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, that they gave him land for a big food-processing plant. In a carnival of publicity, Constantino turned...
...best to carry out a needed austerity in Brazilian affairs. Having obliged the spenders by removing Dantas, Goulart quieted the savers by appointing in his place Carlos Alberto Alves Carvalho Pinto, 53, a hardheaded governor largely responsible for Brazil's most fabulous success story, booming São Paulo state. Goulart's choice as Foreign Minister was more controversial-his own chief presidential adviser, Evandro Lins e Silva, 51, a onetime criminal lawyer, the man who accompanied Goulart on his 1961 trip to Red China and the man regarded as the most influential far-leftist in the Goulart...
...Olympics were still a year away -but the U.S. was already limbering up its muscles. At the Pan American Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil, U.S. swimmers won 19 of 20 events, U.S. wrestlers swept eight of eight, U.S. weightlifters six of seven. Latin American track fans saw their first 16-ft. vault when Dave Tork soared over the crossbar at 16 ft. ¾ in. Balding Pete McArdle chopped 65.1 sec. off the Games record for 10,000 meters, and Broadjumper Ralph Boston leaped 26 ft. 7¼ in. Jaunty Jim Beatty, who had not lost a race in two years...
Even so, the stars of Sao Paulo had better look to their laurels. While junketing U.S. trackmen were shellacking their Latin neighbors, a band of talented homebodies put on quite a show of their own. In one brief weekend, four world records tumbled...