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...irreverent citizens of Rio de Janeiro, the city's House of Aldermen is the "Golden Cage" and its pork-packed bills are "joy trains." Last week, the aldermen were happily hooking up a typical joy train-a bill to create 1,541 new jobs for friends of the legislators. But this time, as an announcement was made that the balloting would be secret, the galleries rang with protest. Guards who tried to clear out the demonstrators were outshoved. The aldermen adjourned without voting-an inglorious admission that the joy trains of what is probably Brazil's most corrupt...
When a torrential rain turned the crust of dust to gumbo, Brazil's officials gave up and retreated. Back to Rio went Finance Minister Sebastião Paes de Almeida, leaving behind an eight-man outpost. Public Works Minister Ernani do Amaral Peixoto sat in Rio signing documents datelined Brasilia and confidentially told visitors: "Officially, I'm in Brasilia." Of eleven Ministers who originally appeared, eight departed. After a quick ten-minute inaugural session, the Supreme Court recessed to June 30; the Senate, without furniture, recessed to June...
With three new hotels already built in his mind, the world's No. 1 innkeeper, Conrad Hilton, arrived in Brazil, seemed in high good humor over his venture into what is, for his enterprises, virgin territory. On his Brazilian expedition, Hilton broke ground for hotels in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, made plans for construction of another in São Paulo. Total cost: about $21 million. A Brazilian corporation, partly financed by British interests, will build the hotels for operation by Hilton under his customary leaseback terms: a third of net profits will go to Hilton Hotels International...
Though others were fainthearted (the Senate adjourned to Rio until June 1), Kubitschek declared: "On Monday we start another blitz to finish Brasilia...
...earlier books, from A Lamp on the Plains to his two-volume Great River: the Rio Grande, Author Horgan, 56, has shown his mastery of the Southwestern scene. In this novel he writes, as usual, with a fine cinematographic flair, and there are impressive wide-screen episodes: a gun fight at a water hole in the gullied, mountain-rimmed desert near Fort Delivery; the punishment of a cowardly trooper who, before the eyes of the assembled garrison, is branded on the hips with the letter D for deserter; the Indian encampment of Rainbow Son-Horgan's fictional version...