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...hunt did not end in the legislative halls. On the lookout for Communist saboteurs, troops patrolled Rio suburbs and Santos docks. Light tanks guarded the great São Paulo electric plant. Hoje, São Paulo's violent Communist sheet, was worked over by police, and masked toughies who had caught the linotype-smashing fever took on the sensational but anti-Communist tabloid A Hora...
Many a delegate thought that the Amazon could wait, but Scientists Paulo de Barredo Carneiro, biologist, and Carlos Chagas, biophysicist, were in no waiting mood. To fellow delegates, they kept hammering their points. Sample: "If [the Amazon] could be brought into food production, the world would be able to support its population." Last week they won. UNESCO set up an Amazon international institute, and appropriated $100,000 to get it going...
...P.S.D. (Social Democratic Party) had splintered beneath him. In a highly significant local election last week, Fascist-minded Getulio Vargas, dictator for 15 years, and sallow Luis Carlos Prestes, the Communist he kept jailed for nine of them, had joined to get control of rich São Paulo State. To get some democratic backing against this alliance, Dutra had only one course, and he took it. He called on the opposition U.D.N. (National Democratic Union) Party for support. To steaming Bahia sped an Air Force plane to pick up State Governor Octávio Mangabeira, the U.D.N. leader...
...Vargas-Communist candidate (for vice governor of São Paulo) was taking a shellacking, although the count is not yet official. The heat might be off for the moment, but Octávio Mangabeira only worked harder. "They used to say that Brazil couldn't get rid of a dictator," he said. "Then they said we couldn't write a workable constitution. Few thought Brazil would ever again have a free press. We have done all that. Now we are faced with the fourth great step along the road to democracy-a constitutional program for governing. Brazil...
...Thinker. A stocky, powerfully built man with a scholar's face, Simonsen is not just a moneymaker. Intellectual as well as industrialist, he founded the São Paulo School of Economics, has written 17 books, including the definitive two-volume Economic History of Brazil. Recently he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He is president of the Brazilian Red Cross, belongs to a hatful of foreign scientific societies. In the Senate, where he is regarded as the best-dressed member, Simonsen takes his work seriously. He seldom speaks from the floor, but puts in hard licks...