Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price of a promise that he would not be molested if he returned to Brazil, Café Filho had to agree to refrain from all political activities. He got a job with a bus company, and spent the following seven years as a white-collar worker in Rio...
...Vice President, Café Filho took no part in policymaking. His only task was presiding over the Senate, and that was not enough to keep him busy. He traveled widely in Latin America, Europe and the Near East. When in Rio, he opened his office door three days a week to anybody who wanted to see him-a practice that he still keeps up, though his crowded schedule now allows only one such public audience a week (TIME, Nov. 8). In four years he received more than 40,000 callers...
...impression that the great Brazilian tomorrow has already reached high noon in a virtual explosion of civic energy. From downtown hotel windows they can count a dozen or more new office buildings under construction amidst what is already one of the world's most impressive arrays of skyscrapers. Rio de Janeiro (pop. 2,600,000) is undergoing an apartment-house boom only less startling than Sao Paulo's office-building boom. And the Brazilians are building more than offices and apartments. Since war's end, Brazil's gross national product has increased at a rate...
...despite Brazil's postwar manufacturing and building booms, the reality of today often mocks the vision of tomorrow. The malodorous, disease-ridden favelas (shantytowns) on Rio's hillsides are better indicators of the standard of living than the new apartment houses near by. Millions of rural Brazilians live in shacks, exist on a diet of beans, rice and manioc root, with a little jerked beef. Two out of three are illiterate...
...vastness of the gap between the envisioned tomorrow, and the actual today, Brazilians sometimes blame nature: the rugged mountain ranges that block the seaboard from the interior, the tropical heat that saps men's energy in the coastal cities, including Rio. Racists (rare but not unknown in tolerant Brazil) put the blame on Brazil's racial potpourri. (It was 62% white, 27% brown and 11% black by the 1950 census, but a majority of Brazilian whites have at least a trace of Indian or Negro blood.) Often Brazilians blame the nation's Portuguese colonial masters. Complains...