Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fearing that the same old political faces would reappear. And in fact they did. A coalition of Goulart's P.T.B. labor party and the P.S.D. of ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, stripped of his political rights for corruption, won the governorships of two key states-Minas Gerais and Guanabara (Rio). Even then, Castello Branco might have persuaded the officers to simmer down had it not been for the return to Brazil of Kubitschek from his self-imposed exile in France (TIME...
Wednesday's military take-over in Brazil was "purely and simply a return to Fascism," according to Helio Jaguaribe, visiting professor of Government from Rio de Janeiro...
...hooked when Producer Sy Weintraub offered him a seven-year deal that "will make you as rich as a whole backfield." How hard the money was to come by he began to realize as, groggy and red-eyed from an all-night flight, he stepped off the plane at Rio to meet the press and the heat. Both proved overpowering. Expected to exclaim about the charms of the carioca moças, Mike could only grunt about the weather. Next morning the papers smirkingly conjectured, "Maybe Mike Henry doesn't like women." Then, even faithful chimpanzee Cheetah turned...
...long pole. No luck. Director Robert Day then ordered a native crewman to sneak up from behind and prod Major's rump. The Brazilian blanched and declined-until he was given an on-the-spot salary hike. Later on, Major shifted from depressive to manic, escaped during a Rio zoo take, sent visitors scrambling for their lives as he rambled free...
...advisers, Castello Branco reconfirmed that most of Brazil's military is solidly be hind his government. At one point there was talk of indicting Lacerda, under the National Security Law, for under mining the stability of the government. Castello Branco used a defter maneuver: his telecommunications agency ordered Rio's broadcasting stations to deny Lacerda air time, thus stripping him of his biggest audience. That could be just the beginning. "We will never ignore the complaints and suggestions of those who aided the revolution," Castello Branco vowed in a speech at Pôrto Alegre. "Yet we will...