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...familiar frenzy. Work came to a standstill; every radio and TV set was tuned to the broadcast. In Brasilia President Joao Goulart canceled all appointments and camped by his radio; congressional committees recessed; Alliance for Progress meetings in Sao Paulo were scheduled around game time. And in Rio 150,000 passionate souls, every man jack of them willing to part with his last cruzeiro, squeezed into Maracana Stadium for the games. Games? It was more like a Latin American madness...
...Rio's Copacabana beach, groups of boys and men, using heads, shoulders, bodies, legs and feet, keep a soccer ball in the air for minutes...
...members, who together helped elect rectors and choose professors, sat in on administrative matters, and generally played revolutionary politics all year long. In 1943, Ibero-American University, a private school closely linked to the Roman Catholic Church, was founded in Mexico. Others followed: Brazil's Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and Ecuador's Catholic University in Quito, both in 1946; and Venezuela's Andrés Bello...
Lacerda is one of the most spectacular prodigies that Brazil has ever produced. The son of an influential Rio journalist, he was managing editor of one of Brazil's most powerful newspapers at 26, owned his own paper at 34, in between was the country's most popular columnist and radio commentator. As governor of Guanabara he has built schools, modernized hospitals, cleared slums and lured foreign investment to his state. But his strongest talent is for violent political warfare. "Carlos Lacerda," says his longtime friend, former Bahia Governor Juracy Magalhāes, "is a man who cannot...
Last summer a Brazilian farmer named Osório Fernandes took his don key Pelé with him to town. In the marketplace of Venceslau Guimarâes, a small boy began tormenting Pelé with a stick, and the donkey struck back-killing the boy with a kick in the head. Police Chief Emiliano Gonçalves had the farmer arrested, but Fernandes wept so profusely in his jail cell that Gonçalves changed his mind and locked up the donkey instead. The charge against the animal: murder. Osório Fernandes angrily leveled a charge...