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...living-space layouts and the general addiction to the skyscraper principle. Main inspiration for Latin America's new architectural forms is the international style pioneered by such men as France's Ferret and Le Corbusier. A prime example: Brazil's beehive-fronted Ministry of Education and Public Health in Rio de Janeiro, the work of a team of architects including Le Corbusier and his brilliant Brazilian disciple, Oscar Niemeyer. Historian Hitchcock calls it "still perhaps the finest single modern structure in Latin America...
Army tanks, trucks and armored cars rumbled into downtown Rio one afternoon last week; they dutifully halted at red traffic lights, then rolled on to carry out their orders. Some 600 men armed with rifles, bazookas and machine guns surrounded the Presidential Palace. A housewife on her way to market glanced at a cluster of soldiers manning a field gun, then turned to a bystander and asked quite matter-of-factly: "What, another coup...
...promptly ousted by Teixeira Lott on suspicion of favoring the golpistas, and 2) Senate President Nereu Ramos, no golpista. After Luz meekly accepted his dismissal, Cafe Filho suddenly decided that he felt well enough to take over again. Last week Teixeira Lott called on him at a Rio nursing home, hinted that the army might let him return if he would agree not to make any Cabinet changes. Snapped Cafe Filho: "I am the constitutional President of Brazil. I will not accept or discuss terms." The following day, after his doctors had pronounced him fit. Cafe Filho notified Congress that...
That night, after telephoning trusted army comrades, Lott touched off what Brazilians labeled "the anti-golpe." In the small dark hours, troops in battle kit swarmed into rain-soaked Rio. By morning the city was in Lett's hands. Segments of the navy and air force first declared for Luz, but backed down the next day without firing a shot. Luz himself fled aboard a navy cruiser. The Chamber of Deputies declared Luz "unable to serve" (on the technical ground that he was at sea), duly named as his successor Senate President Nereu Ramos, next in line according...
...Rio de Janeiro, for fuel...