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...Panties. In Brazil itself, Rio's granfinos passed up the beaches for the cool mountain resorts of Petropolis and Teresopolis. Some Sao Paulo industrialists were different. They rolled down to Rio for a few weeks' fun on beaches, golf courses, race tracks. On Rio's shanty-shingled hillsides, purse-poor cariocas practiced carnival sambas every evening. The catchiest tune of the moment was no samba but a daffy little marcha parodying the United Fruit Co.'s singing commercial (Chiquita Banana) and titled Chiquita Bacana (Hot Baby...
Brazil's year-old Museu de Arte was jammed with granfinos (upper-crusters). Outside in the warm spring rain, hundreds more art lovers queued up, patiently awaiting their turn. It was the opening day of Cândido Portinari's first exhibition in Sāo Paulo in 14 years...
...paintings in Portinari's show in São Paulo told of more enduring evils. Many were staring close-ups of the poor-which he sells for fat sums to the rich. Lately Portinari has abandoned the sad grey plains and squat, nubble-knuckled figures of his earlier years in favor of a tropically brilliant, anatomically believable world that blazes with sunshiny yellows and royal-purple shadows. But though he has changed the colors of his palette, he has not changed his political colors. The clear new light in Portinari's newest murals-including that of the Tooth...
...Paulo, Brazil...
Brazil continued its policy of cracking down on Communists. São Paulo police called on the federal Justice Department last week to deport twelve citizens of Russia and other Iron Curtain countries who had been arrested for passing out illegal pamphlets. The twelve were described as "skilled spies with great experience in this field." The pamphlets, added the police, came from Montevideo...