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...hottest politician in Brazil today is a swart, heavyset, pulsating man named Adhemar Pereira de Barros. "Our Adhemar," as his admirers call him, is governor of the state of São Paulo, Brazil's richest province, home of its heavy industry, and exporter of 60% of its cotton and coffee. Its capital city of São Paulo is the fastest growing big city in the world...
...dark, drab Chicago flat where he was born and brought up, there was no money for such luxuries as college. But Bill Pereira was ambitious, so he figured out a scheme with his elder brother Harold. Hal got a job as a draftsman, helped pay Bill's way through architectural school. When Bill finally began to prosper, he paid Hal back by taking him on as a partner...
...such single-minded planning, William Leonard Pereira has become, at 37, something of a phenomenon in two different fields: architecture and the movies. In his Los Angeles office, he and a staff of eight are now designing: 1) a $7½ million Beverly Hills medical center; 2) a $1 million experimental theater for Paramount; 3) a studio for RKO; and 4) another hospital, two other theaters, two city-planning projects. All told, their volume of business tops $18 million. Last week, busy Mr. Pereira took on another job. He signed a five-year contract with RKO as a producer...
Hurry, Hurry, Hurry! Bill Pereira has always husbanded his time, which is limited to 24 hours a day, at the expense of his energy, which is almost limitless. While attending the University of Illinois, he rationed his time for so many things that he wore himself down from 175 lbs. to 130. To court his wife (they have a nine-year-old son), he allotted himself one Saturday night a month...
Before designing Beverly Hills' Memorial Medical Center, Pereira placed a standing order with a bookstore for every available book on hospitals, spent $30,000 and 30 months on research, combed through local hospital records, questioned local doctors, studied disease rates and nurse-patient ratios, watched operations and laboratory tests. By the time he was ready to draft his plans, he was a recognized authority on hospital design...