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...Brazil, the "land of tomorrow," Sáo Paulo is the city of today. Last week in Sáo Paulo, Brazil's second city, a filling-station attendant watched a convoy of new trucks rolling down the highway to Rio, straight through a blinding tropical storm. Said he, with matter-of-fact pride: "Paulistas don't stop for anything." High in his 27-story skyscraper, a businessman explained judiciously: "We are Brazil. Without us, what would there...
...Paulo is the world's fastest-growing major city; since 1890, its population has shot from 65,000 to 2,250,000. Located squarely on the Tropic of Capricorn some 5,000 miles south and east of New York, it is the southern hemisphere's most dynamic community, the economic powerhouse of the vast republic of Brazil. A palm-studded metropolis, exuberantly expanding under the leadership of some of the world's hardest-working, toughest-trading enterprisers, it is a kind of tropical Chicago...
...better known as "Di" -is one of Brazil's best painters. Fourteen of his cheerful, chubby pictures (including the three on the opposite page) are a feature attraction of the most comprehensive show of contemporary art ever staged in Latin America. In the exhibition in São Paulo, which includes 1,700 works from 21 countries, Di has a room to himself...
...money, paraded the streets with Zulu-dark girls, while Cape Town's white Portuguese chatted happily in their mother tongue with handsome, mahogany-brown Brazilians. Local police tried desperately to figure out which were black, which were white and which in-betweens, finally gave up. Brazilian Captain Pedro Paulo de Aranjo Suzano was no help at all. Said he: "They are all Brazilians...
...pages, from which local presses could print copies for quick delivery to civilians and to allied forces on nearby fronts. At war's peak, we were printing some 834,000 overseas copies at 19 places for distribution to 180 countries and possessions. Among the 19: Bogotá, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Teheran and Sydney. Where transport problems were worst, as in Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, Burma and the Pacific, we sent out pocket-sized "Pony" editions. Smallest of all was the Navy V-Mail Edition...