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...staffers Jayme Dantas and José Gallo in the TIME office. The city was in turmoil. Crowds of people were roaming aimlessly around, shouting and rioting. Messages from people whose names meant little, and cables from out-of-town stringers, were piling up. I called Free-Lance Photographer Paulo Muniz and told him to go out and "shoot whatever...
...city to squelch further outbreaks. But in Porto Alegre, capital of Vargas' home state of Rio Grande do Sul, mobs fired the U.S. consulate and offices of two U.S. firms. Six died and more than a hundred rioters were wounded as troops dispersed them with gunfire. In Sao Paulo, police guns halted attacks on two U.S. company offices, wounding...
...legal party. By week's end the new regime had arrested 100 Communist leaders, and Red-led violence in Rio appeared to be under control, even though two more had been killed and scores wounded in a mob assault on the Air Ministry. In São Paulo authorities announced that they would prosecute the Communist-controlled newspaper Noticias de Hoje for inciting attacks on U.S. company offices...
...years after Vargas had promised to roll back food prices, living costs had climbed 30%, and 250,000 Sao Paulo workers quit their factories in hunger-sparked strikes. Even in the midst of a record coffee boom, Vargas' erratic economic policies weakened the currency, drained the treasury, piled up nearly a $2 billion deficit in overseas trade, and almost pricepegged Brazil's No. 1 product out of the U.S. coffee market. Driving desperately to win back working-class support for the 1954 congressional elections. Vargas recently doubled Brazil's minimum wage, despite ominous growls by the army...
...first time since World War II, Soviet medical scientists last week joined their Western colleagues in discussing the common fight against cancer. At the sixth International Cancer Congress in São Paulo, Brazil, 1,000 cancer researchers from 46 other nations listened attentively as Professor Alexander Savittski of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science reported that 1) in the Soviet Union, "65% of malignant tumors have been cured"; 2) preventive examinations of the entire population over 35 years of age have resulted in "total elimination" of breast and uterine cancer in certain areas...