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...great civilization rising on a plateau on the shores of a lake between the 15th and 20th parallels, a promised land of rich milk and honey blest...
...rate of one each 30 minutes, 2,333 trucks churned out of Rio de Janeiro and took the road west, their springs creaking under all the paraphernalia of bureaucracy, from swivel chairs to paper clips. In the wilderness of Brazil's central plateau, planes touched down on a new, jet-length runway every two minutes with Tempelhof-like precision. This week, before a crowd of 200,000, President Juscelino Kubitschek will officially move the Brazilian government into Brasilia, his $500 million new capital. Boasts Kubitschek: "We have turned our back on the sea and penetrated to the heartland...
Hang the Cost. Brasilia is a skyscraper city sprung metropolis-size from a broad plateau where, just 43 months ago, Kubitschek recalls, "there was only solitude and a jaguar screaming in the night." It was thrown up at a hang-the-cost speed that wrenched the whole country's economy. Forty-five million cubic meters of red earth were ripped out by a $50 million army of machines. The final price tag will top Brazil's annual budget...
Most heartening proof of stability, as the economists see it: the plateau achieved by the wholesale commodity price index-down two-tenths of a point in the past year. Another sign, but less significant because it covers more luxuries and services: the Labor Department's consumer price index shows that living costs dipped slightly in January (one-tenth of 1%) for the second consecutive month-the first time since 1956 that decreases have come back to back...
...publicity man, who arranged his spot on the show for the pressagentry value of the thing. Cugie was no exception. On the Question and Challenge shows, 60% to 70% of the winners got help, testified Producer Koplin, and so did practically every winner who scaled the $32,000 plateau...