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...flurry of excited advertisements in the Brazil Herald glowed of fabulous land bargains in the wilds of the Mato Grosso plateau. Over a Rio television station, a warm-voiced announcer sold stock by posing an enticing question: "Does your money really work for you? Some of the luxuries of this world can be yours-a beach, a home, a boat, an airplane." Such were the latest come-ons of expatriate U.S. Swindlers Benjack Cage (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957) and Earl Belle (TIME, Aug. 4), and they seem to prove that good con men, like cats, land on their feet when...
...Through a front man. Belle got control of two small firms that made abrasives, formed a holding company called Internacional de Màquinas e Abrasivos. He stepped off with appropriate fanfare: a caviar and steak luncheon and a trip to the humming factories in chauffeured Cadillacs for Rio's leading businessmen. Belle envisioned expansion into a sprawling complex of steel, paper and machine-tool plants...
Thus nominated, Quadros went to Rio by train. When morning commuters cheered Viva our next President!" he started to wave, then, with charming sheepishness, scratched his head instead. He conferred with politicians of all parties, including
...Cortines and Canada's Louis St. Laurent, and last July with Canada's Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker-he flew southwest to Acapulco to confer with Mexico's new President Adolfo Lopez Mateos (TIME, Dec. 8) on neighbors' problems ranging from dam building on the Rio Grande to lead and zinc markets. Result: cheers and carnations strewn in Acapulco's streets for the two Presidents, marked enhancement of U.S. good-neighbor relations...
...United States and with, of course, justice to my own country in mind, is to serve with you as equal partners." It was in that genial atmosphere that the two Presidents discussed the common problems of the two countries-construction of the long-projected Diablo Dam on the Rio Grande, difficulties with international marketing of coffee, lead, zinc and cotton...