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...avoid undue capitals punishment, Brazilians have now started a trend toward spelling out the letters. Thus a member of the UDN party becomes a Udenist. For other parties, it takes sharp eyesight, not to mention keen political insight, to determine whether a politician is a Pecebist, Pedecist, Pessebist, Pessedist, Pessepist, Pessetist, Petebist or Petenist. And that, son, is not much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Snafu | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

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